Ghetto Blaster

My review was written in January 1990 after watching the movie on Prism video cassette.

Hot topic of L. A. gang warfare gets a thoughtful treatment in "Ghetto Blaster", a direct-to-video feature.

Richard Hatch plays a guy who returns with his grown daughter to his boyhood home, finding a strange new world ruled by Latino gangs. His dad, R. G. Armstorng, is killed by punks at his grocery store, Hatch is terrorized and his daughter is kidnapped.

Trained in the Army for urban warfare, Hatch is more than a match for the gangs and cleans up the block in several well-done action scenes. Pic transcends genre cliches in the final reel by making some pointed comments about the current situation.