Runtime:
90 minutes (the copy I saw, anyway)
Directed
by: Umberto Lenzi
Starring:
Maurizio Merli, Arthur Kennedy, Giampiero Albertini, Maria Rosaria
Omaggio, Tomas Milian
From:
Dania Film
Yep,
another poliziotteschi film for me. Don't worry, I'm still using
Netflix Instant for the time being for stuff like documentaries,
which I'll probably talk about in one big post where I briefly talk
about some of them. For now I decided to watch this particular film
solely due to the description I found on IMDb: “A
tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a
machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.” YES
Turns
out, once I watched the movie, that was part of the plot but the
entire story is that the loosest of loose cannon cops (Merli, who has
an appropriate cop 'stache) goes after a criminal organization which
the hunchbacked psychotic killer (Milian) is a part of. The
cop-Leonardo Tanzi-deals with various thugs who go after him and his
lady (Omaggio) but also deals with other random criminals, from a guy
missing a hand to young rich punks who enjoy gang-raping women. Yeah,
this is a pretty sleazy tale, no surprise given the director.
Overall,
while I could have done without the gang-rape stuff (even if most of
it isn't shown; there's still a bit where it's implied they use or
are about to use a big piece of wood as “a giant wooden dildo”)
and seeing multiple women get slapped around, this was still SO
wildly entertaining and fun, I enjoyed it all. Tanzi isn't afraid to
beat the crap out of suspects in his custody to get the right
answers, including kicking them in the balls; that is a trademark of
his, hitting people below the belt. Seeing him wreck dudes is always
a delight. You better believe he catches up to the gang-rapists and
what happens to them... satisfying.
You
get the expected here, with shootouts, car chases, brawls, and
getting to see Alfa Romeo's, Fiat 500's, and Citroen DS vehicles all
around. Here, Tanzi pulls a John McClane and crawls around in air
conditioning ducts. That was interesting. So was seeing Kennedy, who
appeared in such movies as Lawrence of Arabia and The Glass
Menagerie.
So
yeah, this is another nice example of a movie in a genre that I think
is pretty damn awesome. I'll be back Thursday afternoon.
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