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Old 10th September 2022, 07:20 PM
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The Heroin Busters (1977)

Enzo G. Castellari's pacy crime drama sees Fabio Testi's undercover cop trying to stop a drugs ring whilst getting not too much help from David Hemmings of Interpol.

Castellari has always been good at action and he shows it here with a terrific final half hour showdown utilising motorbikes, light aircraft and a lot of bullets whilst Goblin provide a highly enjoyable score.

All that let's the film down in a way is a lack of joint screen time for Testi and Hemmings, the film could have been an all time great buddy cop movie (possibly) but Testi is too often on his own, he is however very good and looks f*cking awesome in his cool 70's attire.

Although i've seen this a few times before courtesy of Blue Underground's dvd the recent Arrow Blu-ray looks really impressive and gives this cracking crime film a whole new dimension.


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