Very energetic, or rather frenetic movie, with big thematic ambitions. If only they had slowed down a bit, drawn more out of the scenes and set the characters up a bit more, then the film would have been so much better. It felt like the editor got the upper hand on the director in this one. The sinister subplot never really came to the boil either and the chap playing the Detective had the dodgiest facial hair I've seen in a movie for a very long time. You have to get the facial hair right man, it's really, really important. Funnily enough I had just watched The Consequences of Love the other night on DVD and the contrast between these two movies is pretty incredible. I'm afraid Romanzo suffers terribly in comparison and if you think about they are actually in the same genre. However I still enjoyed Romanzo and unlike the previous poster it did not drag for me which is always a good sign.
Review of Romanzo Criminale
