After the thrilling white-knuckle ride of The Italian Connection (1972-also reviewed) I got set to discover who's the boss.
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Re-inserting part of a scene that was not dubbed into English, Raro Video present a terrific transfer, with a great, clean soundtrack and a fine print,all backed by a very good documentary.
Reuniting with the film maker after The Italian Connection, Henry Silva gives a terrific performance as Neo Noir loner hit-man Lanzetta, who Silva holds to a cold gazes as he carries out brutal murders on gangsters with no interest in the reason, until a job leads to him becoming caught up in the middle of a gang war, while Antonia Santilli (who was nervous about giving a good performance,later praised by the cast/crew in the making of) gives a great, free spirited turn as D'Aniello, with Santilli capturing the chilling abrasiveness, from the gangsters getting their hands on her free-wheeling life.
Closing the trilogy via setting up a sequel that sadly never arrived, writer/ directing auteur Fernando Di Leo reunites with cinematographer Franco Villa, and binds the stylization of the first and second parts into one thrilling Neo-Noir Italian Crime Poliziotteschi bundle.
Kicking off with an explosive assassination sequence inside a cinema, Di Leo continues to expand on his hard-edge staging of Action set-pieces, via scatter-gun whip-pans, blunt-force crash-zooms and coiled close-range close-ups on Lanzetta, that are paired with lingering, icy wide-shots, where Di Leo displays the ruthless crimes spreading across the streets.
Referencing in the film then-Minister for Parliamentary Relations Giovanni Gioia as being involved in the Mafia, (Gioia sued,then later withdrawed his lawsuit,and mentions to him remained) and loosely adapting Peter McCurtin's novel Mafioso, the screenplay by Di Leo loads a continued exploration in his major recurring themes of a loner ( Lanzetta) getting his hands dirty in an underworld with no morals or code of loyalty, with Di Leo fully displaying the inner-workings of the underworld in clinical sequences that reveal who is the boss.
View on the film:
Re-inserting part of a scene that was not dubbed into English, Raro Video present a terrific transfer, with a great, clean soundtrack and a fine print,all backed by a very good documentary.
Reuniting with the film maker after The Italian Connection, Henry Silva gives a terrific performance as Neo Noir loner hit-man Lanzetta, who Silva holds to a cold gazes as he carries out brutal murders on gangsters with no interest in the reason, until a job leads to him becoming caught up in the middle of a gang war, while Antonia Santilli (who was nervous about giving a good performance,later praised by the cast/crew in the making of) gives a great, free spirited turn as D'Aniello, with Santilli capturing the chilling abrasiveness, from the gangsters getting their hands on her free-wheeling life.
Closing the trilogy via setting up a sequel that sadly never arrived, writer/ directing auteur Fernando Di Leo reunites with cinematographer Franco Villa, and binds the stylization of the first and second parts into one thrilling Neo-Noir Italian Crime Poliziotteschi bundle.
Kicking off with an explosive assassination sequence inside a cinema, Di Leo continues to expand on his hard-edge staging of Action set-pieces, via scatter-gun whip-pans, blunt-force crash-zooms and coiled close-range close-ups on Lanzetta, that are paired with lingering, icy wide-shots, where Di Leo displays the ruthless crimes spreading across the streets.
Referencing in the film then-Minister for Parliamentary Relations Giovanni Gioia as being involved in the Mafia, (Gioia sued,then later withdrawed his lawsuit,and mentions to him remained) and loosely adapting Peter McCurtin's novel Mafioso, the screenplay by Di Leo loads a continued exploration in his major recurring themes of a loner ( Lanzetta) getting his hands dirty in an underworld with no morals or code of loyalty, with Di Leo fully displaying the inner-workings of the underworld in clinical sequences that reveal who is the boss.