This Venice-based remake of Strangers On A Train (thanks, back of the DVD cover!) involves Tomas Milian as a snidey, conniving advertising executive who is banging his top model and trying to sell all the shares his wife has in some company in order to get rid of her and marry his model wife. Strangely, his wife isn't too happy with this set up and is quite happy to continually torture Milian.
Milian therefore still goes ahead with the business deal, still bangs his mistress, and has now started to arrange to have Power of Attorney over his wife by trying to forge her signature. Things don't look too good until several 'chance' meeting with a certain Count Matteo move things in a more positive direction.
You see, Count Matteo is yet another one of these bored, turned on, rich types with barely any soul who have explored most of life's extremes and are pushing for more top sensations. He says to Milian, he says, if I kill your annoying wife, whom I have never met, then you can kill my abusive brother who abuses me and is a moron. Milian's all like 'Err...that's...yeah..'
Milian ain't interested in that and wants to bump his wife for the cash but then it soon becomes apparent that Matteo was being serious (the biggest clue being his wife getting murdered). Now the police are leaning on Milian as his many faults are revealed and he still has to hold up his side of the bargain for Matteo, who has various methods in place to make sure that happens.
Although a very slow moving, eventless giallo with no blood and only some opening credits boobs, this film is still worth a watch as it must be the only film that totally displays the full spectrum of Tomas Milian's considerable acting chops. He starts off like a snidey moron but then the look on his face when Matteo describes his murderous idea is priceless. Plus we also get his descent into desperation as it becomes apparent to him and the audience that things have not been weighed in his favour.
Still, not the most eventful film, but full of atmosphere and as it is mostly set in Venice everything is very good to look at. Probably worthwhile to Milian fans and that.
Milian therefore still goes ahead with the business deal, still bangs his mistress, and has now started to arrange to have Power of Attorney over his wife by trying to forge her signature. Things don't look too good until several 'chance' meeting with a certain Count Matteo move things in a more positive direction.
You see, Count Matteo is yet another one of these bored, turned on, rich types with barely any soul who have explored most of life's extremes and are pushing for more top sensations. He says to Milian, he says, if I kill your annoying wife, whom I have never met, then you can kill my abusive brother who abuses me and is a moron. Milian's all like 'Err...that's...yeah..'
Milian ain't interested in that and wants to bump his wife for the cash but then it soon becomes apparent that Matteo was being serious (the biggest clue being his wife getting murdered). Now the police are leaning on Milian as his many faults are revealed and he still has to hold up his side of the bargain for Matteo, who has various methods in place to make sure that happens.
Although a very slow moving, eventless giallo with no blood and only some opening credits boobs, this film is still worth a watch as it must be the only film that totally displays the full spectrum of Tomas Milian's considerable acting chops. He starts off like a snidey moron but then the look on his face when Matteo describes his murderous idea is priceless. Plus we also get his descent into desperation as it becomes apparent to him and the audience that things have not been weighed in his favour.
Still, not the most eventful film, but full of atmosphere and as it is mostly set in Venice everything is very good to look at. Probably worthwhile to Milian fans and that.