Ezio Castellari's crime thriller hits the ground running & rarely lets up. David Hemmings is an Interpol agent tracking the clandestine activities of a lot of drug pushers, users, and well...just about anyone else in on the drug scene in Rome circa 1977. It's ridiculous, hopelessly convoluted but always entertaining. Castellari is a master at this type of film and he's in top form. Hemmings is a tad too tightly wound but he has great chemistry with Fabio Testi, ideally cast as a deep undercover cop. The sometimes intrusive pop-synth score by frequent Argento collaborator Goblin could have been toned down but it's a minor flaw in this classic. Sherry Buchanan plays a junkie. The dynamite cinematography is by Giovanni Bergamini.
Review of The Heroin Busters
