. . . mercenary hard-boiled killer "Diane" explains to her law enforcement simpleton patsy "fall guy" (aka, "Joe"). ROADBLOCK provides just enough "back story" about Diane's devious detours for viewers to conclude that her reason-to-be is the Corruption of Innocence while prodding men to kill each other. This distaff version of OTHELLO's nemesis, Iago, weaves around America, wantonly wielding her wiles against such "soft targets" as detectives, private eyes, and special agents. During ROADBLOCK's main story line, demonic Diane drags Joe down the Road to Perdition (i.e., the dry concrete of the Los Angeles Riverbed). Not satisfied until she feels Joe's final heartbeat sputtering out within her stranglehold, Diane is then pictured strutting down the vast vacuous void (which symbolizes her empty soul), in search of fresh meat. Diane leaves only a trio of dead men in her wake at the close of her ROADBLOCK rampage, so it's highly likely that she's now "loaded for bear," and gunning for many more victims during her next go-round.
Review of Roadblock
