Both of the Enzo G. Castellari movies on Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers pus action further than anything we'll see on screens this year, both films backed with brutality and danger both in the film and in making it, as there are no computers to make these stunts look like they're spitting in death's face. They're all real, all true, pure guts and balls and power.
Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) is one man against a crime syndicate that starts with robbing a small town and charging them protection money, but has aims much higher. Nico's hands are tied by the system so he forms his own squad of vigilantes who have each been damaged by the mob: a criminal named Pepe (Vincent Gardenia); Piero Mazzarelli (Glauco Onorato), who has been crippled by the gang; Luigi Giulti (Renzo Palmer), whose daughter was raped by the gang and who then committed suicide (this scene is Death Wish brutal and it's even worse when you realize that it's Castellari's daughter Stefania playing the role), Gianna Rossetti (Orso Maria Guerrini), an Olympic marksman whose wife Anna was assaulted and killed by the mob - after they urinate all over her and set his house on fire, making them beyond Death Wish 3 goons - and the mercenary Doringo (Romano Puppo).
Nico's lost his badge to take down crime. Will his gang be able to stop the crimewave?
There's a scene where Testi is in a car that goes down a hill. We watch it slowly fall apart and glass flies directly at the actor and it looks truly harrowing because, well, it was. When you don't have budgets and you don't have time and all you have is guts, you shoot the movie.
The end of this movie is apocalyptic. Bullets fly, cars explode, fire is everywhere and by the end, even the shotgun that Testi grips can't solve everything. His rage closes the movie, as crime doesn't go away just because you're a good man trying to save the world.
Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) is one man against a crime syndicate that starts with robbing a small town and charging them protection money, but has aims much higher. Nico's hands are tied by the system so he forms his own squad of vigilantes who have each been damaged by the mob: a criminal named Pepe (Vincent Gardenia); Piero Mazzarelli (Glauco Onorato), who has been crippled by the gang; Luigi Giulti (Renzo Palmer), whose daughter was raped by the gang and who then committed suicide (this scene is Death Wish brutal and it's even worse when you realize that it's Castellari's daughter Stefania playing the role), Gianna Rossetti (Orso Maria Guerrini), an Olympic marksman whose wife Anna was assaulted and killed by the mob - after they urinate all over her and set his house on fire, making them beyond Death Wish 3 goons - and the mercenary Doringo (Romano Puppo).
Nico's lost his badge to take down crime. Will his gang be able to stop the crimewave?
There's a scene where Testi is in a car that goes down a hill. We watch it slowly fall apart and glass flies directly at the actor and it looks truly harrowing because, well, it was. When you don't have budgets and you don't have time and all you have is guts, you shoot the movie.
The end of this movie is apocalyptic. Bullets fly, cars explode, fire is everywhere and by the end, even the shotgun that Testi grips can't solve everything. His rage closes the movie, as crime doesn't go away just because you're a good man trying to save the world.