Good concept, poorly executed.

Absolutely the worst movie.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

As others have said, this is Coleman Francis' (inspired by a bad acid trip?) attempt to do "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," which itself has its roots in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale: ruthless criminals end up double-crossing each other and nobody really wins. Unfortunately, that sort of thing works only if you care about the characters or at least are curious to see what will happen next. I can't tell one character from the next, except that (as everyone else has pointed out) the main guy looks like the guy from the Three Stooges. As for what happens next, I can't tell what ALREADY happened, and I'm still watching it, courtesy of MST3K. I think they threw in the Cuba stuff just because it seemed timely in the '60s. Other than that, this movie seems like a bunch of random chase scenes and shoot-em-ups from other movies tossed together. The Stooges guy choking the one who keeps talking about his long line of Kallikak ancestors is Charles Boyer freaking out at a blind beggar in "Algiers," the MST3K crew picked up on the hiding- from-the-cops scenes cribbed from "The Defiant Ones," the chick associating with the men who abandoned her wounded husband is out of GOK how many films noirs. If you want to see a movie where random amorality actually works, watch 1972's "Bad Company." I've clicked the Spoiler option, but I'm not sure there's anything to spoil. NOBODY knows what's going on in this film.

Written, directed by and starring Coleman Francis--it doesn't get any worse than this. This film is literally a step-by-step guide on how NOT to make a film. In my kinder moments, I think that perhaps they were trying to be artistic, but it just doesn't work. No plot, no continuity, no character development, no acting, no framing, no composition. Even the sound is crap but that's okay because no one really says anything approaching relevance or a story.The only thing that really puzzles me is how in the world John Carradine got roped into making an appearance? For that matter, his scene doesn't make a bit of sense to the rest of the movie, so maybe they lied to him and told him the movie was about something else? All in all, I believe Crow T. Robot said it best: 'I want to hurt this film, but I know I can never hurt it as much as it's hurt me.' So true, Crow, so true.

Do you know what's worse than a movie directed by Coleman Francis? A movie directed by and starring Coleman Francis. I simply cannot imagine anyone watching this thing without the Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary. I'm a fan of "bad" movies, but Red Zone Cuba would be too much on its own. A nonsensical plot involving a Cuban invasion, the worst acting imaginable, and editing that looks as if it were done by monkeys are just a few of the "highlights". I defy anyone to find a frame of this movie that in some way isn't flawed. Every moment presents a new and even more amazing decent into putrid film-making. I cannot see giving this abomination anything higher than a 1/10.But, with the MST3K commentary, Red Zone Cuba becomes absolutely hysterical. I laughed so hard during the film's second half that I had tears in my eyes. I'll put this episode near the top of my list of favorites. Episode #619 gets a 5/5 on my MST3K rating scale.

Curse you, Ray Dennis Stecker! If you(also a terrible filmmaker in your own right)had'nt found Coleman Francis drunk in a gutter and encouraged him to make films, we wouldn't have been inflicted with his three opuses, namely Skydivers, The Beast of Yucca Flats, and the epitome of dreadful, Red Zone Cuba. This 'movie' stuns you with its sheer awfulness. It is a senseless, horrible piece of crap. The main character, played with greasy flabbiness by the auteur Mr. Francis himself, is perhaps THE most unlikable character I have ever seen, and that includes the guy from Manos and Francis's mentor Ray Dennis who played an amazingly unlikable character in his Mixed Up Zombies movie. This jerk is first seen escaping from prison, and for most of the rest of the movie all he does is smoke, threaten people, grouse, and of course pointlessly beat up and kill people. I've always been amazed by 'filmmakers' you cast themselves as characters in their own movies, and then proceed to make the character someone so nasty and horrible that the audiences first reaction is to want to bitch slap them. Is that how you want to be remembered, Mr. Francis? As that horrid guy in Red Zone Cuba who sunk the human race to new lows? Well, okay, then.The plot - okay, there is no plot. None. Nada. Zip. There's supposed to be an 'invasion' of Cuba, but there's maybe eight guys on the invasion team, because apparently Cuba(which looks like New Mexico for some reason) only has eight Cubans living on it. And one of them wears a terrible false beard for some reason. Then there's an incomprehensible escape, wherein the characters fly out of New Mexico...err....Cuba, and land in - where else? New Mexico. Then there's a weird bit about a really annoying blind singer and her very tall, very thin, very old Dad who gets stuffed down a well. After that, there's a ton of strung together travel scenes, and the idiots arrive at their destination, a ranch with a really depressed woman living on it. Then some High School age G-Men show up, Francis shoots the woman for no discernible reason, and he gets chased down and shot. The ONLY good scene in the whole movie, if you ask me. And that's it. Arrggghhh!!!