Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Wordiezett So much average

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

bkoganbing About the only thing I can say good about Milano Trema is that it has some nice shots of Milan in it. This Italian production with a native cast is a poor ripoff of some of our cop dramas like Bullitt or The Seven Ups or even the Dirty Harry series.Luc Merenda an orthodox cop with a Dirty Harry style of doing business does one thing that Harry Callahan would never do, go undercover because too many criminals know his face. He is however suspended for an execution of a pair of escaped criminals.After that his main booster the ever so tolerant police chief of Milan is assassinated by a criminal gang. Merenda goes undercover to find them.The gang is headed by American expatriate Richard Conte who after playing Don Barzini in The Godfather played a lot of cheap grade z productions for a paycheck. He has the look of a man waiting for his paycheck to clear as he mouths his dialog.There's a nice police chase similar to the one in Bullitt in this film. But all in all it's all stuff we've seen better on American cinema.

gavin6942 A renegade Italian cop fears that the law is too restricted when trying to fight lawless criminals, especially after seeing a prisoner escape and kill more people. Why send him back to prison when he already had a life sentence? All future murders are free of charge. Then, a high-ranking cop is killed on the street and the renegade is given an audience -- he is free to fight crime in his own way, which is a bit reckless.I've seen reviews compare this film to "Dirty Harry", which seems about right. If anything, the officer in this film goes beyond what Clint Eastwood's character would do. Working with prostitutes, infiltrating a crime syndicate -- even robbing a bank with them, resulting in the death of a pregnant woman. The title "violent professionals" really sums it up... though, whether this refers to the cop or the criminals is left ambiguous.After seeing another film from the box set I retrieved this from ("Kung Fu Punch of Death") I had very low expectations. But, ignoring the low production value that runs rampant in Italian films, the story and action were pretty amazing. There's a car chase scene that can give "French Connection" a run for its money. If you can tolerate cheap films, this is a truly great crime film.Would I watch this again? Sure I would. I'd love it if someone would clean up the picture, sound and give me subtitles instead of dubbing... but for what the film cost me I more than got my money's worth on it. Don't be afraid to watch "Violent Professionals".

JoeytheBrit This was my first taste of the Italian police movie sub-genre of the Seventies (if I'm honest I'd have to say I didn't even know there was such a sub-genre) and I can't remember being so bored by a film so filled with gunplay and car chases. Perhaps it's because I watched it at six in the morning after being unable to sleep, or maybe it's because of the lousy dubbing but, whatever the reason, this very obvious Dirty Harry rip-off had little to offer.Luc Merenda is too much of a pretty boy to make a convincing enough anti-hero. He looks more like a Dirty Harry sidekick who gets killed in the first reel than a gritty tough guy, and his style of acting is too bland to draw the viewer in. The storyline is convoluted – although the plot is actually quite simple – and its twist becomes increasingly obvious as the film runs down. There are a couple of good car chases, and not many people get to beat up Richard Conte twice in one movie, but otherwise all this flick did for me was make a bout of insomnia that much worse.

Coventry There are good cops, there are bad cops… and then there also are awesomely barbaric Italian cops! Back in the early 70's, when the best scoring films in Hollywood were raw & violent crime-thrillers like "Dirty Harry" and "The French Connection", the Italian film industry immediately attempted to cash in on this trend and produced films that easily surpass the excitement-level of their American counterparts. The already hard-working local directors, who almost exclusively made horror films and westerns until then, like Umberto Lenzi, Fernando Di Leo and Enzo G. Castellari, suddenly also became specialists in the fields of outrageous car chases, deafening gunfights and aggressive personal vendetta techniques. Even though usually filmed on a tight schedule and wasting a minimum amount of budget, these crime-thrillers always are highly professional and technically superior films with impressively fast-paced camera-work and flawless editing. Sergio Martino joined the temporary hype as well, and – as it was the case with his splendid gialli-achievements – he delivered one of the absolute greatest efforts in the sub genre. His "Violent Professionals" has it all! The script is great and terrifically convoluted (courtesy of Ernesto Gastaldi – him again), the lead hero is immensely charismatic and merciless and the action sequences are so incredibly outrageous they're guaranteed to make your head spin. Practically all of these Italian crime-thrillers introduce heroic coppers who literally balance on the edge between right and wrong themselves. They're supposed to uphold the law and arrest criminals, but they rather act as judge, jury and executioner in one and prefer to kill a gangster rather than to bring him in for questioning. The opening sequence of "Violent Professionals" makes this perfectly clear, as the handsome and rough Inspector Giorgio Caneparo pursues a couple convicts through the Italian countryside after they escaped from a prison transport and killed several policemen and innocent civilians. Even after the criminals had already surrendered themselves, Inspector Giorgio guns them down anyway! This sequence is rather irrelevant to the rest of the movie's plot, but it's a terrific appetizer nevertheless and it gives you a good idea of the main character's personality. The actual plot revolves on the same Inspector Giorgio infiltrating in the organized crime network of Milan, because he wants to find and personally punish the bastard who killed the Milan police commissioner (and his own best friend). With his aggressive fighting style and vast knowledge of bank robbing techniques, Giorgio quickly gets himself noticed and he's soon hired as the getaway driver of one of Milan's most notorious mob bosses. The script isn't always waterproof, but the basic premise of "Violent Professionals" is compelling and engaging enough to keep you close to the screen throughout the whole playtime. The action is top-notch, with some of best car crashes/chases ever shown (the same ones actually feature in Lenzi's "Almost Human") and a whole lot of bloody executions. It's also an amazingly raw and relentless film! Poor, defenseless children and innocent hostages die just as brutally as the real baddies and you shouldn't count on a happy ending in which the hero walks towards the sunset with his loving girlfriend. Quite the contrary, Sergio Martino often captures a surprisingly gripping & melodramatic atmosphere here; especially in the sub plot centering on the affair with Inspector Giorgio and the drug addict informant Maria Ex. The De Angelis Brothers' score is one of the most enchanting ones I ever heard and it's perfectly appropriate for all the uneven differences in the film's tones. Luc Merenda is just as imposing and memorable as his fellow bad-cop actor colleagues Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock and Maurizio Merli. Very much recommended if you're looking for thrills and suspense.