Zwei Supertypen räumen auf (1976)

Zwei Supertypen räumen auf: Directed by Fernando Di Leo. With Jack Palance, Al Cliver, Harry Baer, Gisela Hahn. Two small-time hoodlums plot to get even with a treacherous boss who is intent on monopolizing all criminal activity within Rome.

“What went wrong here? Fernando Di Leo drops the ball in a meandering crime film that takes almost fifty minutes to get anywhere and doesnu0026#39;t feature any particularly interesting characters. All Jack Palance does is scowl with a cigarette in his mouth, something youu0026#39;ve seen him do in a dozen other films.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt starts out with a kid witnessing his father being killed by Jack Palance, then we fast forward to the present (seventies Rome), where Tony works for local mob guy Luigi (played by a very pale Edmund Purdom). Tony wants to work the big leagues and ends up teaming up with Al Cliver, a guy who until recently worked for Palance. I guess the mystery is figuring out which one of them was the kid at the start of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe first two thirds of the film concentrate on these two scamming Palance while also fighting with Purdomu0026#39;s second in command, and the main problem is neither of the leads are that interesting. The only character with any depth is the old Neopolitan pickpocket who gets caught up in the all the madness. For some reason though his character has an over the top Italian accent whilst everyone else is dubbed American.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost of the action takes place in the last half hour of the film, where finally everyone gets their guns out. This is where Al Cliver shines as heu0026#39;s not the best at being emotional, but at least he looks cool gunning people down. The whole film seems a bit tired and itu0026#39;s as if Di Leo didnu0026#39;t know where to take the story, and as thereu0026#39;s about a million Eurocrime films from 1976, this one doesnu0026#39;t quite cut it.”