646f9e108c Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle,heroines break out of a women&#39;s prison and start a local revolution. If you expect sweaty chicks behind bars you&#39;re in for a major dissapointment.<br/><br/>The gals spend like one minute in the &quot;hot box&quot;. Some third world rebels kipnap 4 American nurses to help their revolution. At first they protest but later they &quot;wake up&quot; and start diggin&#39; the rebels&#39; political aim. Jonathan Demme, who scripted this, has made some fun Women-In-Prison flicks for Roger Corman like &quot;Caged Heat&quot; and &quot;Black Mama, White Mama&quot; but this halfbaked &quot;Exploitation With A Cause&quot; is pretty boring despite massive doses of nudity and decent acting.<br/><br/>People who saw this at a drive-in in the early 70&#39;s must&#39;ve been a bit confused. As other reviewers have already mentioned, &quot;The Hot Box&quot; has been mis-marketeda Women-In-Prison film, when in fact it is a low-budget action film with four American nurses getting caught up in a revolution taking place in the &quot;republic of San Rosario&quot;. This was one of the earliest scripts that Jonathan Demme (&quot;Silence of the Lambs&quot;) wrote in his career, and personally I found the structure a bit heavy-handed. I assume that the goal was to make the viewer root for the revolutionaries and against the oppressive government, yet for the first half of the movie most of the revolutionaries we meet are little more than cackling sex maniacs! And even the more &quot;civilized&quot; ones treat the four American women - who are nurses, mind you, not their enemies in any way - pretty horribly. In the second half, they are subjected to even worse treatment by the government side, and finally the revolutionaries are starting to come off&quot;the good guys&quot; (by default!). Wouldn&#39;t it be wiser to try to build more sympathy for them earlier on? I also didn&#39;t like the small comedic touches in the film, they felt awkward given the generally grim and unpleasant content. What I did like are the four female leads, who make a likable and good-looking team; their unabashed nudity is most welcome. Is it just me or would Margaret Markov (who plays the most &quot;idealistic&quot; of the four) have been perfect for the part of an angel in a fantasy? (**)
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