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Why I hate Contraband.
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One ask that should be asked is – Why are there hardly any mafia films based in Italy? Definite we have the Godfather series with its flashbacks of Sicily, but what about Italy? There are not many and certainly even the best of movie lovers will have exertion trying to list one or two if any at all! So here you have one… and its fine!… in its bear very peculiar odd scheme.
Contraband is a lost classic that has now been restored here on this DVD. What happens when the world’s foremost gore director decides to invent a crime caper? Respond – more blood than Al Pacino can shoot up in all his gangster flicks establish together. Although the dwelling is mostly non-existent and certainly there is runt here in terms of brains, there is plenty of action and alarm to boot.
Basically the dwelling revolves around several smuggler gang families from Naples all snubbing each other out in the worst possible design imaginable… and that is all there is it to it really.
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Everything on indicate here is comely pointless but it is not done badly at all and the acting is a petite better than what you would quiz. There are several gore scenes that stand out – a woman getting her face torched to burly melt, a gangster having his head machine gunned to pieces, a mob leader having his throat blown off, plenty backs of the heads flying across the room, cops consuming nuns, horses burning up, mobsters getting boiled alive, gangster shot up in church, a vicious rape sequence, intestines being shot out and lots of screaming – all done to the tune of a funky eighties disco beat that is more respectable for a …movie. No Sir, you will not glean this one playing on television any time soon.
If gangsters, guns and gore is your thing then you’ll savor it, but don’t accept this expecting the cinematic flair of what Hollywood has done with this genre.
One of Fulci’s most under-rated movies, CONTRABAND (aka – THE SMUGGLER) also holds the honour of being his most mean-spirited and bloodthirsty movie besides Current YORK RIPPER. The standard residence takes on Mafia bootleggers vs. a perfumed French drug racketeer (THE FRENCH CONNECTION’s Marcel Bozzuffi at his most villainous) .
With its’ fight/chase scenes, brilliantly catchy cheesy disco fetch, foul-mouthed dialogue, and hundreds of spent bullet casings, the movie rides on the coat-tails of the then-popular Eurocrime genre. It’s how vicious the film gets that really sets it apart – someone is boiled in an acid pool, another guy’s head is machine-gunned to pieces, a pusher’s face is blowtorched into a molten mess, and there’s a nearly unwatchable sodomy scene that precedes RIPPER’s unsuitable razor torture scene.
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The only true drawback is that the first half-hour is a bit of a glide, but once it starts to gather piquant (with the well-staged assassination of Testi’s brother), it doesn’t let up from there.
Well acted and assured, Fulci demonstrates a confident hand in the action scenes and it’s a shame he didn’t delve more into this genre.