Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Boss (1973)

Directed by Fernando Di Leo
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Raro Video)

Talky mob drama punctuated with violence and a very high body count. Henry Silva is a hit man ordered by his boss to rescue the daughter of a mafia member kidnapped by a rival mafia family. Instead, he kills the girl's father and takes the ransom money, and the girl, for himself. He keeps it all under wraps until he is ordered to assassinate the rival mafia leader with the help of another young hit man. More violence follows, with an unsurprising twist ending. The violence on display is almost comical, with obvious dummies used for some of the scenes. There are virtually no sympathetic characters, perhaps only Silva, but even he showed no loyalty to his friends or family.

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