LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Bezenby Maurizio Merli returns as Inspector Maurizio Merli in full ass-kicking mode, hell bent on capturing mob boss John Saxon, a crime boss so slippery people rub bread on him in an attempt to make some sort 'man oil' bruschetta. This time, Saxon's organised a mass-child kidnapping and a band robbery but can Merli link these jerks to the main, head jerk? Not without heaps of trouble.First off, the kidnappers hide the kids in an empty grain silo and are supposed to be keeping a low profile, so of course one of the kids gets ill and dies, and one of the kidnappers attempts to rape a local girl and brings the cops right to the door of the place they're hiding in. This results in Merli himself being thrown from a moving car as he bravely substitutes himself for the kids that didn't die, and the kidnappers bravely killing and burning the jerk that messed up the kidnapping.Luckily, Merli's got a man on the inside in the form of kick-ass stuntman/actor Massimo Vanni, who leads him to the kidnappers, but not before Vanni himself gets tied to the back of a car and dragged around a quarry until dead. Vanni also does a bit of disco dancing and wears a neat white disco suit for all you out there obsessed with diminutive Italian actor Massimo Vanni. Not too give too much of the plot away (and there is a plot) this is a top notch Euro-crime film with all the usual car chases, gun fights, moustache action, police brutality, prison scenes, children being slapped about, women being threatened, fighting on roofs, whiskey drinking, and Massim Vanni that you need. What can you say about John Saxon other than 'his hair hasn't changed shape or length for three decades'? The man is Italian movie gold.Mirella D'Angelo turns up as a grieving sister to the dead kid which blossoms into a romantic sub-plot with Merli. I was totally confused that Massimo Vanni got killed because I'm certain he turns up in later Euro Crime films as Maurizio Merli's sidekick.

adrianswingler There are a lot of things that go into a crime film, from car chases to clever plots by the crooks to betrayals and turn-arounds, power struggles, etc. This one is memorable in that it gets full marks for all the bits that go into one, and it delivers that for more than an hour and a half full stop. The dialogue was a bit trite at times, which is why I gave it 9/10, but if you like *any* kind of crime movie, I think you would not only like this one, it's one of those that has you thinking about it for a while afterwards. I grabbed a big pizza pie and a nice red wine and really enjoyed watching this. The director did all the usual Italian filone, but was pretty mediocre with his Westerns and it took him a while to get going with this filone, but I think in this one he hit his straps. I think this was actually better than his good, later, Roma Violenta. Has to get 9/10 in my book as it's a good example of the genre that transcends it to compete across the broader genre, in every era.

Darkling_Zeist The uber macho and super-svelte pugilist, Maurizio Merli reprises his incendiary role as the maverick, all fists blazin', skin-tight shirt wearin', Commisario Betti for yet another gonzoid installment of rabidly hard-boiled Italian poliziottesci action. craven, ill-dressed thugs are foolhardy enough to attempt the kidnapping of a group of school children on Merli's watch which unleashes a deluge of exhilarating retribution from the inimitable, golden-haired paragon of righteous vengeance, Commisario Betti; whose zero tolerance; throw jaw-mashing roundhouses an' ask questions later modus operandi proves more than adequate when called to throw down with his arch nemesis, Albertini; played with obvious glee by another legendary euro-crime alumnus; the ever- lithe, John Saxon. 'special cop in action' is demonstratively one of the all-time great euro crime epics, galvanized by a riot of killer set pieces, made all the more deliriously entertaining by Franco Micalizzi's gritty, funkier-than-thou score; emphatic crime funk par excellence.

Grzegorz Dabkowski This is probably the most action-packed film I have ever seen - and I have seen quite a few. Unlike in many Italian films of the seventies, not much time is wasted on phony emotional slush. There are no slow-motion shots and few "face studies" so typical of cheap cinema,where poliziottesci generally belong. The story is usually quite believable and logical but also pleasantly fresh and unpredictable. Action scenes are imaginative and realistic - I particularly liked the car chases - though some fight scenes do look rather wooden and the the punches are always much too loud. Maurizio Merli does not overact too much (especially if compared with Franco Nero). He does a really nice job as a tough but likable inspector. He chases the criminals, but can also be lenient with those who want to mend their ways. There is also a nice romantic element in the story. Another advantage of the film is the absence of politics. One is frequently unpleasantly surprised at the amount of naive leftist brain-washing in Italian action cinema of the 70s. (eg. Milano callibro 9) I don't understand the undeservedly low rating of this film in imdb(5.9. I have also seen 'La polizia incrimina, la legge assolve' by Castellari, rated at 7.5, and I think this is a much better film. The dialogues are good though I can't guarantee for the translations. Learn Italian and see the original. However, this is not a family cinema. A few scenes are really rough, so I wouldn't recommend the film to anybody under 15.