FLESH AND BULLETS is one of the few non-pornographic films made by the Peruvian actor and director Carlos Tobalina, who I previously caught in INFRASEXUM, another very low rent crime thriller. FLESH AND BULLETS is much like that film but with less in the way of sex and nudity, although it is present here and there. Instead this is a very cheap and bland rip-off of Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, as a couple of men meet and hire each other to kill the other's wife.
The problem with this film is that virtually nothing in the way of incident happens all the way through. To counter this, Tobalina shoots a number of fantasy dream sequences to supply the bloodshed, but they're all so, well, irrelevant because they're only included to pad out the running time. The whole thing is lousy in terms of production values and acting quality, and the only interest comes from seeing the old faces that Tobalina roped into appearing. Yvonne De Carlo and Cesar Romero both have (very) brief turns as judges, turning up to recite a sentence before disappearing again. Cornel Wilde and Aldo Ray have a little more screen time but they're cops who never leave the table at the station they're in. Finally, cult favourite Robert Z'Dar shows up as a violent ex-boyfriend, and is probably the most interesting thing in this.
The problem with this film is that virtually nothing in the way of incident happens all the way through. To counter this, Tobalina shoots a number of fantasy dream sequences to supply the bloodshed, but they're all so, well, irrelevant because they're only included to pad out the running time. The whole thing is lousy in terms of production values and acting quality, and the only interest comes from seeing the old faces that Tobalina roped into appearing. Yvonne De Carlo and Cesar Romero both have (very) brief turns as judges, turning up to recite a sentence before disappearing again. Cornel Wilde and Aldo Ray have a little more screen time but they're cops who never leave the table at the station they're in. Finally, cult favourite Robert Z'Dar shows up as a violent ex-boyfriend, and is probably the most interesting thing in this.