It appears that Umberto Lenzi has made loads of films in every genre you can think of and you likely have seen at least one of his cannibal, zombie, giallo, or crime films. Please don't tell me any of them are masterpieces. That is a word movie fans love to throw around but as foolish as I have been in continuing to watch Lenzi's films there has yet to be a single one which can even be described as good.
Here we see a former policeman who possibly now is a writer of crime fiction played by the very handsome bleached blonde Maurizio Merli. Does the fact that he is no longer a cop stop him from chasing bad guys around? You know the answer to that. The cast is rounded out by two other familiar faces, which is to say Tomas Milian and John Saxon. You have likely seen Milian in other European westerns and crime movies and of course Saxon was in Tenebrae and the eminent Cannibal Apocalypse.
Saxon and Milian play two bigwigs in the underworld. Milian plays the Chinaman. Why is he called the Chinaman? Well after you've figured that out maybe you then can let me know why he goes around with a bandage on his head for the whole film. As far as I know there is no explanation for either thing. Later on in the film Saxon ends up in jail. Now possibly I dozed off but as far as I know there is no explanation for that either.
If you're just looking to kill some time you can do worse than this film but otherwise good luck knowing what the hell is going on. Tanzi receives a kind of greeting card at the beginning of the film which lets him know he will be killed and his uncle (who looks a lot like my dad) is roughed up and robbed by a couple of hoodlums so that is enough to get the ball rolling for him. Again Saxon and Milian are a couple of gangsters who either are working together or who mean to wipe the other one out. You may interpret that Tanzi has decided to eliminate them both by turning them against each other, that might be it. Tanzi runs into some dame at some point. You must forgive me for referring to her that way. Of course the characters in the film use even less respectful terms for women. Is she a love interest, does Tanzi screw her? I don't know. At the drop of a hat Tanzi gives her her walking papers.
Narratively speaking this film fails completely. It is just a lot of guys running around hitting and shooting each other, driving around in their cars, and wrecking their cars. Loot is stolen, women are treated poorly.
I really need to stop watching Umberto Lenzi movies. If a person is bad at something you would think they'd stop doing it, no one would want anything to do with him. But somehow Lenzi never made a good movie in his whole life and has made countless movies anyway.
Here we see a former policeman who possibly now is a writer of crime fiction played by the very handsome bleached blonde Maurizio Merli. Does the fact that he is no longer a cop stop him from chasing bad guys around? You know the answer to that. The cast is rounded out by two other familiar faces, which is to say Tomas Milian and John Saxon. You have likely seen Milian in other European westerns and crime movies and of course Saxon was in Tenebrae and the eminent Cannibal Apocalypse.
Saxon and Milian play two bigwigs in the underworld. Milian plays the Chinaman. Why is he called the Chinaman? Well after you've figured that out maybe you then can let me know why he goes around with a bandage on his head for the whole film. As far as I know there is no explanation for either thing. Later on in the film Saxon ends up in jail. Now possibly I dozed off but as far as I know there is no explanation for that either.
If you're just looking to kill some time you can do worse than this film but otherwise good luck knowing what the hell is going on. Tanzi receives a kind of greeting card at the beginning of the film which lets him know he will be killed and his uncle (who looks a lot like my dad) is roughed up and robbed by a couple of hoodlums so that is enough to get the ball rolling for him. Again Saxon and Milian are a couple of gangsters who either are working together or who mean to wipe the other one out. You may interpret that Tanzi has decided to eliminate them both by turning them against each other, that might be it. Tanzi runs into some dame at some point. You must forgive me for referring to her that way. Of course the characters in the film use even less respectful terms for women. Is she a love interest, does Tanzi screw her? I don't know. At the drop of a hat Tanzi gives her her walking papers.
Narratively speaking this film fails completely. It is just a lot of guys running around hitting and shooting each other, driving around in their cars, and wrecking their cars. Loot is stolen, women are treated poorly.
I really need to stop watching Umberto Lenzi movies. If a person is bad at something you would think they'd stop doing it, no one would want anything to do with him. But somehow Lenzi never made a good movie in his whole life and has made countless movies anyway.