No, not a film about cheating at Wimbledon, but rather an enjoyably trashy Italian crime flick about a tough cop determined to bring to justice the violent gangsters responsible for running a nationwide protection racket.
Fabio Testi (snigger, snigger) is Nico Palmieri, a hard as nails copper who is forced into taking extreme measures in order to defeat the bad guys. After usual police procedures fail to stop the escalating violence, Nico gathers together a group of embittered victims lusting for vengeance (plus an ageing hit-man keen to earn himself a passport) and sets out to blast the scum into oblivion.
Director Enzo G. Castellari (he who made the original Inglorious Bastards) conducts proceedings with gusto and an eye for an interesting shot (Testi's car crash, seen from inside the rolling vehicle, is particularly impressive), and despite an increasingly preposterous plot, this movie will prove to be loads of fun for those who enjoy the genre, with bloody shoots outs and fist-fights aplenty.
The diabolical English dubbing, which replaces swear words with some really daft alternatives, is also rather entertaining: it took me a while to understand exactly what was going on, but once I'd cottoned on, the words 'diddly' and 'basket' had me in stitches.
Fabio Testi (snigger, snigger) is Nico Palmieri, a hard as nails copper who is forced into taking extreme measures in order to defeat the bad guys. After usual police procedures fail to stop the escalating violence, Nico gathers together a group of embittered victims lusting for vengeance (plus an ageing hit-man keen to earn himself a passport) and sets out to blast the scum into oblivion.
Director Enzo G. Castellari (he who made the original Inglorious Bastards) conducts proceedings with gusto and an eye for an interesting shot (Testi's car crash, seen from inside the rolling vehicle, is particularly impressive), and despite an increasingly preposterous plot, this movie will prove to be loads of fun for those who enjoy the genre, with bloody shoots outs and fist-fights aplenty.
The diabolical English dubbing, which replaces swear words with some really daft alternatives, is also rather entertaining: it took me a while to understand exactly what was going on, but once I'd cottoned on, the words 'diddly' and 'basket' had me in stitches.