'Dead Drop' (2013) - R. Ellis Frazier.

I can happily report that low-budget, tibia-thrashingly trashy,  bullet-brained action movies are still alive and well in charismatic skell-stomper Luke Goss's fabulously fleet fists! While some consider him to be diabolical dross, personally, I think the smoulderingly sexy, sleek-limbed Goss is a legit B-Movie boss! While recycling a far from original premise, 'Dead Drop' remains a serviceable, albeit generic, frequently bloody, seamily south of the border, revenge-fuelled DTV actioner, and I enjoyed the swelteringly sun-hazed Mexico-set backdrop, effectively lending this gritty tale of deadly C.I.A. duplicity, and righteously unleashed vengeance an ersatz Peckinpah vibe!

Dead Drop's notable faults are that the no less reliable B-Warrior Cole Hauser is criminally underused here, and, frustratingly, the prosaic text is frequently uninvolving. On the upside, capable director R. Ellis Frazier is clearly forged from the same energized B-Movie mettle as martial arts mavens Ernie Barbarash, and Keoni Waxman, since Frazier successfully keeps his freight train of bitter revenge moving at a distractingly swift pace. As a momentary digression, Waxman made the altogether decent Goss-starring actioner 'Killing Salazar', which is arguably well worth a shot for fellow Goss gourmands! All the film's predictably stodgy, Alpha-dude ingredients are luxuriously leavened by the uncommonly sublime presence of dusky starlet Carolina Castro, playing Goss's especially exquisite damsel in distress 'Rosalita'. While I can accept 'Dead Drop' as having somewhat limited appeal outside of the myopic realms of B-Action fandom, this mucho-macho Mexican slug-fest excitingly proves yet again that gorgeously grizzled, steely-eyed Goss is a more than credible contemporary action hero! 

'It aint just angels of mercy that fall from the sky!'