One more example of what the Italian film industry gave us in the seventies, forty years ago. Violent, brutal with a gratuitous cruelty every ten minutes, but with so many exciting and unbelievable sequences. And also sometimes unexpected schemes and endings, downbeat ones, for this movie. That's a buddy movie, where a cop befriends an ex army officer to fight against corrupt politicians implicated with the mob. It is laughable at many moments. The other user is right, Henry Silva is always at the good moment and at the good place where action is, where the bad guys are...Ha ha ha Such as this terrible - or terrific - sequence where he is in the park with his sweet heart and when two hoodlums arrive to assault a woman and take her purse. Our lead hero is here by pure coincidence...The park seems desert and suddenly, once he has begun to annihilate one of the hoodlums, who falls on the ground, a dozen of persons, simple walkers, emerge from the lawns and the trees to lynch the down hoodlum. You have here so many unnecessary bloody scenes and unnecessary sexist and brutal sequences. But, after all, that's an Italian crime flick from the seventies. Ninety percent look like this one, most are better done of course, even the pure action features, directed by the likes of Enzo Castellari, Sergio Sollima, Fernando Di Leo, Umberto Lenzi, Damiano Damiani or Pasquale Squieteri. The ending reminded me two Jean-Pierre Melville's films; LE SAMOURAI and UN FLIC...The movie buffs will know what I am talking about.
A very good bad film for die hard fans only.
A very good bad film for die hard fans only.