Contraband (1980)
Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore goes for a poliziotteschi, Italian crime movie, that surely sounds interesting if nothing else. The thing is that Fulci is categorized as just a gorehound and his artistic talent doesn't really get any recognition even though he has done some quite a brilliant movies in middle of all the blood and guts. Too bad this wasn't one of them and surely didn't help that categorization. I mean the movie had tons of potential and some brilliant scenes but in the end it focuses too much on the gruesome shock effects and neglects the good ideas the plot had to offer. It's a story about a smuggler called Luca whose brother is killed by a rival drug gang and as he goes for revenge he stumbles on to a mafia war that doesn't shy on bodycount. Despite the slow and quite promising start the movie soon takes a turn to focus brutal violence and forgets the context in middle of the mess. As typical for Fulci, the women get the worst share of the violence in a few scenes where even the most hardened gorehound will have hard time watching. The cast is fairly good with Fabio Testi as the most notable of course. The dubbing is probably the worst I've heard in an Italian movie, so watch the movie in it's original language with subtitles or it'll just seem unintentionally funny. I was quite disappointed in the music, Fabio Frizzi is one of the greatest composers from Italy, right after Ennio Morricone, so I was expecting a lot more from it than this. So the movie had potential, but unfortunately it's not used that well. Gorehounds will get their fair share of blood and guts, the rest get just an average eurocrime movie with too much focus on the violence.
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