- Actors: Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Sherry Buchanan, Wolfango Soldati, Massimo Vanni
- Directors: Enzo G. Castellari
- Writers: Galliano Juso, Massimo De Rita
- Producers: Galliano Juso
- Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Blue Underground
- DVD Release Date: 25 April 2006
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000EQ5UA0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,547 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Undercover agent Fabio (Fabio Testi) is working with British detective Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings) to bring down a massive Heroin organisation lead by Gianni (Joshua Sinclair).
This a typical Euro-Crime movie based around the tough unorthodox cops taking on a group of cruel criminals, this time drugs dealers. I have always been a fan of Italian genre films and this is an entertaining movie that will keep viewers pleased for the full running time.
Fabio Testi as usual is good as the tough Fabio but I felt the best performance was that of David Hemmings, just if he'd done more of these kind of films. I am however a little sick of seeing the same actors playing bad guys in Enzo Castellari's pictures, as Joshua Sinclair is once again playing the standard no thrills villain. The cast does star Castellari's regular actors in small roles such as Rommano Puppo, Sergio Ruggeri and Angelo Ragusa which I didn't mind.
The film does however quite surprisingly have a lack of Slow-Motion but I guess it makes a change for Castellari movies even though I enjoy it.
The score by The Goblins is okay, but I've never been the biggest fan, so anyone who regularly likes their scores will most likely enjoy this one.
Overall a highly enjoyable film.
This a typical Euro-Crime movie based around the tough unorthodox cops taking on a group of cruel criminals, this time drugs dealers. I have always been a fan of Italian genre films and this is an entertaining movie that will keep viewers pleased for the full running time.
Fabio Testi as usual is good as the tough Fabio but I felt the best performance was that of David Hemmings, just if he'd done more of these kind of films. I am however a little sick of seeing the same actors playing bad guys in Enzo Castellari's pictures, as Joshua Sinclair is once again playing the standard no thrills villain. The cast does star Castellari's regular actors in small roles such as Rommano Puppo, Sergio Ruggeri and Angelo Ragusa which I didn't mind.
The film does however quite surprisingly have a lack of Slow-Motion but I guess it makes a change for Castellari movies even though I enjoy it.
The score by The Goblins is okay, but I've never been the biggest fan, so anyone who regularly likes their scores will most likely enjoy this one.
Overall a highly enjoyable film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Heroin Busters is released as part of Blue Undergrounds Enzo G.Castellari collection. the other two being Street Law and the Big Racket.
This film is different from the other two, it was more slick and commercial. It reminded me of the Roger Moore Bond films at the time albeit with a much smaller budget.
Even though it did not have the massive explosions, big car chases and exotic international locations (It did have a brief montage of location shooting at Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Cartagena at beginning to set the story of international drug smuggling) of a typical James Bond film, it did match the excitement and adventure expected of the famous movie spy franchise.
Castellari manages to do this by the inspired pairing of two fantastic leads, Fabio Testi and David Hemmings, to drive the story of the infiltration of an international drugs ring along in a brisk and stylish pace until the last part of the film where non stop action is thrown at the audience at a break neck pace.
These set-pieces include an inspired use of a construction site, an empty sub-way and an impressive aerial chase.
This is a very fresh film and it's hard to believe it was shot in the seventies. This is down to no part to Castellari's eye for getting the best look of the sunny locations, Testi's and Hemmings charismatic performances and Goblin's funky score.
Definately one to get!!!!
This film is different from the other two, it was more slick and commercial. It reminded me of the Roger Moore Bond films at the time albeit with a much smaller budget.
Even though it did not have the massive explosions, big car chases and exotic international locations (It did have a brief montage of location shooting at Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Cartagena at beginning to set the story of international drug smuggling) of a typical James Bond film, it did match the excitement and adventure expected of the famous movie spy franchise.
Castellari manages to do this by the inspired pairing of two fantastic leads, Fabio Testi and David Hemmings, to drive the story of the infiltration of an international drugs ring along in a brisk and stylish pace until the last part of the film where non stop action is thrown at the audience at a break neck pace.
These set-pieces include an inspired use of a construction site, an empty sub-way and an impressive aerial chase.
This is a very fresh film and it's hard to believe it was shot in the seventies. This is down to no part to Castellari's eye for getting the best look of the sunny locations, Testi's and Hemmings charismatic performances and Goblin's funky score.
Definately one to get!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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For most of its running time Enzo G. Castellari's The Heroin Busters is an exercise in lazy plotting and almost arbitrary box ticking as it flatly trudges through the usual cops and drug runners clichés, which wouldn't matter so much if the action scenes were better. Unfortunately despite a decent botched evidence room robbery, it's a film that's saving most of its ammunition for its grand finale. But when it comes, it's a grand enough finale for you to forgive a lot of the padding it took to get there, the final twenty minutes offering a prolonged chase through a subway construction site and the ruins around the Caracarla Opera that displays the kind of verve and imagination so much of the film had been lacking until then, and clearly influencing both Diva and Lethal Weapon 3 along the way. It's well worth waiting for.
David Hemmings' Interpol cop doesn't have much to do apart from make the odd bad tempered speech or copping a feel from an obliging girl on a motorcycle while Fabio Testi is his usual monolithic self as the new boy on the crime scene trying to work his way into the mob. If anything Joshua Sinclair's villain makes more of an impression if only by virtue of his untrustworthy pencil `tache, cigarette holder and English accent that makes you wonder if Terry Thomas is a role model to Italian drug lords. Surprisingly Goblin's score works against much of the picture, especially the opening sequence that clumsily moves between Hong Kong, Amsterdam and New York, and Massimo De Rita and Galliano Juso's script is often shoddily constructed in the first half but it does at least offer a couple of odd surrealist touches and a gratuitous lesbian scene to keep the audience's interest while you're waiting for the action to kick off. It's just a pity the wait wasn't a bit more interesting.
Blue Underground's NTSC DVD offers a decent widescreen transfer of the English language version with a rather unfocussed audio commentary by Enzo G. Castellari and the theatrical trailer as extras.
David Hemmings' Interpol cop doesn't have much to do apart from make the odd bad tempered speech or copping a feel from an obliging girl on a motorcycle while Fabio Testi is his usual monolithic self as the new boy on the crime scene trying to work his way into the mob. If anything Joshua Sinclair's villain makes more of an impression if only by virtue of his untrustworthy pencil `tache, cigarette holder and English accent that makes you wonder if Terry Thomas is a role model to Italian drug lords. Surprisingly Goblin's score works against much of the picture, especially the opening sequence that clumsily moves between Hong Kong, Amsterdam and New York, and Massimo De Rita and Galliano Juso's script is often shoddily constructed in the first half but it does at least offer a couple of odd surrealist touches and a gratuitous lesbian scene to keep the audience's interest while you're waiting for the action to kick off. It's just a pity the wait wasn't a bit more interesting.
Blue Underground's NTSC DVD offers a decent widescreen transfer of the English language version with a rather unfocussed audio commentary by Enzo G. Castellari and the theatrical trailer as extras.
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