Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Michael A. Martinez Richard Conte signed out on a relatively high note on this not-too- bad Italian cop film quickly put together as a spiritual sequel to 1973's LA POLIIZIA INCRIMINA LA LEGGE ASSOLVE. The producers couldn't get Franco Nero or Enzo G. Castellari to come back so instead what they did was hire Nero's lookalike Maurizio Merli and Castellari's father Marino Girolami to direct. On top of that, they brought back genre regulars Silvano Tranquilli, Massimo Vanni, etc. as well as Guido and Maurizio De Angelis to score (often relying on music tracks taken right out of LA POLIZIA). This would not be the only Eurocrime movie to do this.As relatively cheap and rough as this movie feels with plenty of awkward scenes and barely a plot to speak of, this movie is notable for 3 big points:1) Maurizio Merli. Merli could have just been a cookie-cutter fill- in for Franco Nero but very much makes it his own with a new definition for "physicality". Merli's first act upon entering frame is to clench his jaw and grind his teeth standing over a poor homicide victim. From then on out it's hell to pay as Merli shoots, beats, foot-chases, and car-chases his way through the criminal underground with dogged determination. It's a formula that worked so well that he repeated it about a dozen times in the following 5 years... usually with Attilio Duse as his clueless loyal sidekick.2) The car chase! While there were a lot of great ones in the genre, the chase in this film I find the most deliciously entertaining. It takes us through the streets, parks, and highways of Rome, gloriously destroying several cars, a flower stand, a random pile of freeway debris, and several innocent bystanders before it ends. The first crash of the chase is a particular delight, spinning in circles with glass and metal flying in all directions.3) John Steiner. This film also gave the fledgling British character actor a whole new career by casting him in a small but extremely memorable part as a particularly violent and snarky bank-robber. While Steiner had already had a few memorable villain roles, he said that this film changed the game for him like no other, and secured him nonstop work for the following 15 years. He's hilarious, mischievous, and ultimately frightening in the second of the film's two career-defining roles.Even if you're a casual fan of the genre, I'd recommend you give this film a try. It represented a paradigm-shift unlike any other film in the genre and set the table nicely for Umberto Lenzi's several subsequent contributions.

Leofwine_draca The film that launched Maurizio Merli's tough police inspector into the limelight is a thrill-a-minute story of cobs and robbers done in the inimitable Italian style. Sure, the plot is light and episodic, but who cares when your film contains action as cool as it is here? Even to genre fans, Merli's crime films all look and feel the same, but VIOLENT ROME being the first seems even more polished and professional than most. Director Marino Girolami invests the film with plenty of style, cool exciting music, some of the finest genre actors around, and places hard-edged action at the centre of the film.Never has a movie lived up to its title so well, as this film contains some of the most brutal violence you will ever see. Innocent bystanders are bloodily gunned down by criminals, men slug it out with killer blows and sharp slaps to the faces which look like they really hurt, ferocious men shoot each other with guns and machine guns in broad daylight and turn each other into Swiss cheese as a result. The film goes really over-the-top as it tries to shock the viewer as much as possible in some moments. "Highlights" include a crippled man in a wheelchair being beaten to within an inch of his life, an innocent lady being stripped and raped, and a thug opening fire on a park full of happy people and mowing them down from a passing car.Meanwhile, Maurizio Merli - who, after the international success of this movie, found himself typecast in such productions for years to come, always playing exactly the same part (his name would sometimes change but never his character) - goes gunning for the criminals, engaging them in hand-to-hand combat, shoot-outs, and exciting car chases which really show off the excellent Rome location photography. Sometimes he just shoots them in the back to be sure. The strong supporting cast includes veteran Richard Conte as the leader of a vigilante group which Merli joins, Ray Lovelock as an undercover friend of Merli's who gets machine gunned during an exciting bank raid, and John Steiner as a suave English villain who is coincidentally dubbed by the same guy who did Lovelock's voice in THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE.The photography is crisp and fluid at all moments and the film has superb pacing which never lets up until the bizarre ending, which you have to admit is pretty offbeat (as is the case in a number of Italian productions). Girolami's excellent direction is what makes this movie so good, and although the plot twists and turns and many characters come and go, VIOLENT ROME retains a relative simplicity which makes it so watchable. Fans looking for a traditional game of cops-and-robbers played out in some authentic Italian locations should check out this movie as one of the highlights of the Italian polizia genre.

christopher-underwood Bit rough round the edges but full on all action with super central performance from Maurizio Merli. Tough, uncompromising and definitely politically incorrect, this barely pauses for breath as our hero takes on the young baddies of 70s Rome. Pretty shabby old Rome it looks to be too but I seem to recall London wasn't much better around that time. There are probably a few too many fist fights and beatings but some are most effective and the central car chase was magnificent, and I'm not a real fan of them. Gritty, ruthless and unstoppable, like the main film itself. There is even time for a sleazy episode when a daughter enters the scene at the wrong time. The robberies are mainly all low key, handbags, shops and the like but there is no mention of the mafia here so maybe they kept a hold of all the big stuff.

dogcow great film, with merli as an inspector seemingly constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown of some kind, although that may just be his acting style. The film is very bleak and has a hopeless and depressing tone to it. The use of famous italian landmarks in rome as a backdrop gives it a real interesting visual look which is good considering Girolami doesn't really know how to move the camera in an interesting fasion. Overall I enjoyed this movie on the first viewing, and more on the second! I also own the soundtrack CD which is quite good if you like that sort of thing