ironhorse_iv Review of All the Way Boys

All the Way Boys (1972)

This movie took flight, and crash and burn. It was horrible!

[5/10 · 29 January 2015]

If you like this movie, you're just plane crazy! All the Way, Boys AKA Plane Crazy is a really chop up, badly done movie. Following their success, in 1970 spaghetti western, 'They Call Me Trinity', comedian actors, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer would pair up in over a dozen other films, using the formula of brawls and jokes established in that film. All the Way, Boys is the first film by Bud Spencer & Terence Hill that had both, play off, each other, that wasn't in the Wild West environment. Directed by Giuseppe Colizzi, the movie follows the story of Salud (Bud Spencer) and Plata (Terence Hill) as they eke out a living as bush pilots in South America. The plot is very confusing; at first, you think it's about them, faking plane crashes in order to collect the insurance money in a humorous heist movie, matter. Then the movie seem like a survivor tale, as one of the plane really crashes for real in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to survive. But no! After a month of wandering around, play out in a two minutes of film, in very insulting way, they find a diamond mining community operated by Mr. Ears (Reinhard Kolldehoff) with Plata and Salud decide to make a living by competing against him, by making delivery services by airplane. Then, maybe this is a funny 'rags to riches' type of a film. Sadly, none of these film genres really can describe this film. There is no main plot, as the movie doesn't give a clear answer to that. The movie plot, just jump around and around, as if they started filming without a script. The movie almost feels like a waste of time. Lots of pointless filler scenes with none of them, really connecting. It's really annoying. Don't get me wrong, it's very entertaining at times, just frustrating. The movie has a lot of cool tense scenes like billiards game, or the close call when their airplane nearly collision with another passenger plane, but I really wanted a clear cut story. I'm very serious, this movie really has no clue, what it wanted to be. It mixed, everything into one film, very awkwardly. The movie gives a very serious sad melodrama story about an old miner, Swarming Matto (Cyril Cusack) who then tells his tragic story to Salud, only to have Salud fall asleep during it. Is this supposed to funny or are we supposed to feel bad for this old guy? I having a hard time, figuring out if I should laugh or not. I find Matto to be the heart of the film and the most interesting, so when I saw what the filmmakers did to his character, toward the end. I was deeply disappointed. There is a 'treasure hunting adventure mystery' behind the old man's story, yet the movie moves with others things before it, like getting an injury man to a hospital in a dangerous night flight or having various slapstick fights or random musical dancing numbers at a bar. The movie has a lot of gaping plot-holes that are way too noticeable, not to care. Honestly, it felt very insulting to see them, escape prison, without telling us, how. Another is, how they manage to survive in the jungle for a month, before seeing the miner's town. A lot of this movie doesn't make, any sense. The movie has a lot of fake-out semi-endings, also. You would think the movie was over, when Matto reach the main city, but no, the movie had to go on and on. Honestly, this movie goes on and on, way too much. It never ends, like ever-lasting fist fight between the two title characters, which lasts until sunset, without a clear winner. One of the worst things about this film is awkward cuts. This movie was edited, very badly. The 90 minutes runtime version of this film is nearly unwatchable. Try to find the uncut 120 minute version, but it's virtually impossible to find. Other DVD versions like the ones that I watched were just a mess. It seem like it was copy from old VCR tapes, as it has a lot of recorded tracking problems. The English dubbing sounds quite dull. Overall: This movie nearly humorless, and really out there. Only the charms of the characters, the wonderful exotic South America locations and the alright catchy soundtrack by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis save this movie from being a complete failure. I can't recommended this film. Check out, Terence Hill & Bud Spencer's 1983's 'Go for it', instead. It's a better watch, than this film.