I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Night Train to Mundo Fine (aka Red Zone Cuba) is about the most pointless, incredibly ridiculous movies ever made. The story follows an escaped convict named Griffen (Coleman Francis) who befriends a couple of drifters looking for work, and they decide to join the Bay of Pigs invasion force. After about 20 minutes of military training, all 8 men of the invasion force invade Cuba. They're all captured and awaiting execution, when the three friends escape and fly a plane to Arizona to look for precious metals in a mountain one of the men in the invasion force told them about in their cell. They drive around, kill a couple people, jump on a train, meet the wife of the guy who owns the mountain, and as they're heading out to do some mining G-men show up to capture them.There really does seem to be no point to this movie whatsoever. There are so many plot lines which go nowhere, and no real reason to involve the Bay of Pigs as part of the plot, other than to learn about the Arizona mountain and its riches. There's no reason for them to kill people after they go to Arizona. There's no reason for them to ditch their car and hop onto a train, only to get another car later on. There's no need for Griffen to shoot the woman after the feds are chasing him.This could have been a decent movie if it had decent directing and a budget for the action sequences. As it was, about all the action was cut out of the movie. There was little action in the invasion sequence, certainly no combat to speak of. Then when they were escaping Cuba in the airplane, one minute they're taxiing down the runway with a jeep chasing them and people shooting, next thing they're walking in a field. Same for the train sequence. One minute they're walking on top of a moving train, the next they're jumping out of a stationary boxcar. In fact, the whole train scene was no more than 1:20 or so minutes long. It's like Coleman Francis thought it'd be a great idea to take out all the best parts of the movie and leave in everything else.And in the end, there's really not much of a message to this movie, or if there's supposed to be it's difficult to determine what it is. You really can't feel empathy for the lead character because he's just not much of a likable guy. Nor do you really care about the others. Nor is the movie good entertainment, even in a "so bad it's good" sort of way.If you watch this, watch the MST3K version.

This review has been a long time coming for me. Most of the reviews I've done on this website are of low budget pictures. The Z and B grade films. There's something about them that appeals to me. It might be because I myself am a filmmaker. I've made one full length film and I know how difficult it can be even to get a shoddy film produced. Of the classic bad directors (Ed Wood, Tom Graffe, Hal Warren, and the like) Coleman Francis may be the most atypically worst. His plots are often rambling and nonsensical, and the production values are lackluster. However, much like many others (I'm sure) who have reviewed this film, his work keeps drawing people back.Red Zone Cuba is Coleman Francis' opus. Not only is it his last film, but it is his most grand in plot, setup, and story line. The film revolves around Griffin, an escaped convict, and his two drifter sidekicks Cook and Landis. On the search for the almighty dollar, they fight in the Bay of Pigs invasion as soldiers of fortune, and wind up robbing and pillaging the southwest until a shootout ends Griffin's life.The film contains all the classic Francis elements, coffee, cigarettes, implied assault scenes, closeups, and light aircrafts. The production values as you might expect are poor, as is the dialogue and acting. However, I do feel that this ambitious z-grade film is commendable. Foremost, the plot is, as I said earlier, ambitious. A shoe string budget film that involves an invasion scene, an aircraft shootout and an army training montage is no easy feat. While Francis' final product lacks the polish of a professional film, on the budget he was given I believe the product was fairly well done. His choice of sets is more than acceptable, the army base looks like an army base, the beach looks fairly close of a Cuban beach, and the bleak Yucca Flats setting was perfect for the drab remainder of the film. If I were to shoot a film like Red Zone Cuba, I could conceivably see me hiring Francis as a set director.My biggest problem with the film is the dialogue. Griffin's character of course is unlikable, there are of course all sorts of films with despicable main characters, Griffin, however is given no depth we don't get to know him, and our hatred is based only on his actions not his psyche. Likewise, we don't get to understand why his sidekicks, Landis and Cook side with him so quickly. I wanted to know more, but was not given the opportunity to given the poor script.There are sparks of genius in this film. Most often mentioned is the theme song which ties into the overall theme of evil. I also liked the film shot at the end, after the sexual assault scene when Griffin's car drives past the, "where are you going to spend eternity," sign. Small things like this show me that Coleman had at least some potential, I just wish he hired someone else for the script. Red Zone Cuba is one of those must see bad films. It's an example of a film someone made against all odds, and with few resources. It's availability outside the MST3k version is limited, but worth tracking down. If you like the z-grade check it out.

"Night Train to Mundo Fine", aka "Red Zone Cuba", is one of the numerous movies only known today thanks to "Mystery Science Theater 3000". The incoherent plot has some criminals who participate in the Bay of Pigs invasion. That's supposedly the plot, but only a few minutes of the movie take place in Cuba, after which the characters go on a crime spree in the southwest US. Yeah, try and figure that one out. The person playing Fidel Castro looks as much like him as celery looks like lava. Basically, the movie itself could be a metaphor for how well planned - not to mention how successful - the actual invasion was. As Crow puts it, "I want to hurt this movie but I can never hurt it the way it hurt me." So, if in fact you want to see it, just watch the "MST3K" version, as well as the show's version of that other Coleman Francis fiasco "The Skydivers". How cruel of Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank to make Mike, Servo and Crow watch this.

Protagonist escapes prison. Protagonist meets two shady men. The three stooges travel in a plane to undergo an hour of training to invade Cuba for a pay of 1000 dollars, they receive 35. The invasion fails and they get captured. They escape and rush back to the us in a plane. Then follows a series of events that are coherent in no way, and it finishes with the protagonist getting shot.This "film" should not be seen unless you are into BDSM or want to see how a bad film is done. It should serve as an example why a script is important, as well as a variable cast. A film will not turn out good if you go out in the desert with just a camera and a hand-picked cast of actors from the metal factory.If you are to see this film, please note that the protagonist has no lines until a third of the film has passed and that your confusion is natural. Nobody understands what goes on.