CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 1973 by Difnei Cinematografica. Released in the U.K. through Eagle, June 1975. No Australian release. U.K. length: 8,978 feet. 100 minutes. U.K. release title: The BLOODY HANDS OF THE LAW.SYNOPSIS: A police inspector is forced to use violent methods to smash an international crime ring.VIEWER'S GUIDE: Strictly adults.COMMENT: A thick-ear, gratuitously violent crime melodrama, directed in a rather disorientingly incompetent TV style, this film is worth noting only for the presence of Klaus Kinski. Actually, despite his high billing, Kinski's role is small. What's more he doesn't utter a single word on camera. Kinski plays a vicious thug, conveying menace entirely with his eyes and the set of his lips. He's not dumb. The script is contrived so that he doesn't have to open his mouth while the cameras are turning. Perhaps he was chafing at not being allowed to do his own dubbing in previous Italian movies. Certainly the on-screen silent technique used here is a unique way of getting around the whole dubbing problem. For instance the dubber for Cyril Cusack completely misses that actor's distinctively smarmy voice. For cinemagoers who enjoy exploitive violence, the pace is fast and production values expansive. Aside from the jerky direction and assembly-line dubbing, credits are able enough.

Red-Barracuda The Bloody Hands of the Law is a rarely seen Italian crime film. It stars the reliable Klaus Kinski in a role as a professional killer. He goes through the entire movie without even saying one line of dialogue, I'm sure not having to learn any lines suited Kinski just fine. Anyway, the film still benefits a lot by having his considerable presence at its disposal. He isn't the lead actor though, that would be Philip Leroy who had an important role in another much better poliziotteschi, Milano Calibro 9. He has more of a starring role in this one and he does give it his all. He looks like a bad ass and he clearly seems to be doing his own stunt work as well. With these two on board it's a bit of a pity to acknowledge that the movie itself doesn't match up to its lead actors. The story is fairly uninteresting and has no real dynamism and it isn't even always easy to follow what's going on. The crime network that underpins the story isn't very well explained and we never really know what they're all about.The story, such as it is, begins with a professional assassination of a crime boss. Witnesses to the crime are bumped off and then others involved in the investigation also meet violent ends. A policeman frustrated with the ineffectiveness of the law demands that the gloves are removed and a more heavy–handed approach is taken in bringing these gangsters to justice.Like all Italian crime films it's pretty violent in places, with a particularly memorable scene where a would-be rapist has his crown jewels obliterated with a blowtorch which seemed rather appropriate. But otherwise the violence is less original and consists mostly of men administering beatings to one-and-other. As I said, the story is messy, so it's hard getting very involved in this one, which is a shame because there is good things about it. I particularly liked the downbeat and moody ending that at least rounded things off on an interesting note. This one also stars the very dark and dusky beauty Silvia Monti, who also featured in Lucio Fulci's classic giallo A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, in a support role as Leroy's lover.

LARSONRD THE BLOOD HANDS OF THE LAW (Italy, 1973) aka La Mano Spietata della Legge). Viewed via UK DVD from Alfa Digital released a couple years ago, English dubbed (poorly) and fairly murky print. Fairly pointless and generally incomprehensible crime thriller which begins unraveled and never gets any closer to lucidity as it goes along, finally ending on a note of intriguing despondency but without any firm resolution to its story. Klaus Kinski plays a silent paid assassin whose connection with the other assassins and the increasingly connected network of Organized Crime who people the film is never made clear. The film is mildly violent (despite its 1970's era reputation for being wildly violent) – there are lots of beatings, stabbings, two fisted interrogations, pointless nudity, and "the ever-popular crotch blowtorching scene" wherein a rapist gets his, if you will forgive the term, comeuppance. In many ways the film hearkens to the DIRTY HARRY style, with Philip LeRoy very good as the cop seeking to use any methods possibly to track down the killers, whose victims increase as potential witnesses to their original crime, and then witnesses to those crimes, etc etc, are sequentially knocked off. Nice 1970s Italo-pop score by Stelvio Cipriani is never really used to stylish advantage. Film plods along and begs for an interesting directorial style that, like the film itself, never really delivers.

von-13 Found this title on Danish x-rental vhs-tape the other day. Letterboxed 1:1.70 and uncut. Runningtime is 95.21 mins, pal system. Danish title is....Politiets Hårde Drenge(tuff police-boys...in English!!). It's supposed to be extremely violent,but I fail to see the reason for this rumour as no real graphic violence is shown directly "in y'ar face"!! Ok...Klaus Kinski...looking very very cool in 70´s sunspex by the way....does set a guy's groin area on fire with a small flamethrower. Not a very pleasant scene. There's really no interesting story to follow and the action is rather tame, but we do get lots of truly nice shots of Klaus, who performs with his usual flair for putting on a cruel face. Participating from start to finish,he dosn't speak one single word throughout the entire movie,though!! Recommended for die-hard fans of either Italo crime or the wonderful Mr Kinski. I'm the latter, yep!! Worth a million on the sell/swap/trade scene among collectors worldwide!!