bay area resident probably remember paul from the diamond center and an unctuous late night huckster who flog easy credit and cheap rock on late night television throughout the 1980s and early 90 . i mention him only because there be an actor in death machine who look just like him play the owner of an italian restaurant . he appear in the best scene in this positively dreadful and near unwatchable crime drama about a dragon lady ( mari honjo and who wisely hang up her acting spur after complete this film ) who control the local syndicate . our hero ( let call him not paul from the diamond center ) play the restaurateur with all the subtlety of the simpson luigi ( you lika da spaghetti . ) and seem unimpressed when one of his patron complain about the food . no and there no fly in the soup or hair in the sauce represent there a red buddha in the pasta and the call card of the murderous crime bos and who send a statuette to each of her prospective victim . death machine be bad by any measure and and pretty boring and which be an even bad crime .