Quelli della calibro 38

Average poliziotteschi. It's spectacular to the eye, lethally paced, there's always something going on, action after action after action, but it's all so shallow and superficial. Moreover, I had a decent déja-vu during the training of the commando – something I’d already seen in two other polizioteschi films. The direction is not very inventive and some scenes border on unintentional naivety. The performances are truly awful at times, including Marcel Bozzuffi, who had charisma but was not a great actor by any means. It’s a kind of consumer product, a film made to order in the fashionable trend of Italian cinema of the 1970s. (29.04.2016)