Saturday, June 19, 2010

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Via Dura aka The Way Of The Drug

Year: 1989
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Original title: The Way Dura
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini
Cast: Miles O 'Keeffe, Milton Rodriguez, Chuck Bishop, Philip Wagner, Sarah Sharman Henry Silva
Availability: VHS

Plot:
U.S. intelligence in Bolivia sends three of his best agents to destroy drug trafficking Captain Wesson. Arrived on site will find that their contact is dead, and the meeting place has turned into a ruthless ambush. So start a manhunt by army personnel of the drug lord in respect of the special team.

Comment:
ruthless guerrilla movie not to be confused with "La Via Della Droga" by Enzo G. Castellari.

Michele Massimo Tarantini is another versatile Italian director, capace di reinventarsi e districarsi tra i più svariati generi. Trasferitosi da alcuni anni in Brasile, dopo aver diretto alcune commedie all’italiana e un Women In Prison dal titolo “Femmine in Fuga”, decide di approfittare delle suggestive e congeniali location forestali per dirigere un action che ricorda molto da vicino i war movie caratteristici di Ferdinando Baldi ( Soldato Maledetto , Warbus, Missione Finale ).

Il film parte subito in sordina, presentando senza fronzoli il cattivo di turno, tale capitano Wesson, interpretato da un Henry Silva ormai solidificato negli standard del più classico dei villain. Al quale, poco dopo, verrà contrapposto il trittico di agenti scelti composto da Bull l’americano, il tedesco, e il nero di turno che, putacaso, sarà il primo a morire poco dopo il loro arrivo sul territorio nemico. Bull e il tedesco, nonostante la trappola tesa dal signore della droga e i suoi fedelissimi sottoposti, riescono in un primo momento a scappare, lasciandosi inghiottire dall’immensa e sconfinata natura forestale, preparando poi un piano d’attacco che farà capitolare il piccolo impero del narcotraffico.

Bull è interpretato da Miles O' Keeffe, attore di una certa risma in quanto interprete di alcuni dei più memorabili b-movie nostrani quali Ator l’Invincibile e il matteiano Double Target. È assimilabile al classico eroe anni ottanta da poche battute che preferisce their way to the sound of bullets rather than words. In fact the film for its entire duration, is nothing more than a single and continuous shooting nearly free of dialogue. There is a moment of pause and it would be quite fun to count all the dead killed that progressively wiped dall'imperturbabile trio of action. Sure you get to triple digit abundant. To get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it has to offer "The Hard Way" just imagine the last quarter of an hour with Commando Schwarzennegger lasted for an hour and a half. How would a person of my acquaintance: "TOOOOOOSTO."

The scenes are well directed, supported by innumerable explosions that ignore the laws of physics and a decent job of stuntman (very beautiful sequence in which the Bull broke into the church with the bike). But such a product, moreover, must be taken with the appropriate measures by going to frame how a small action film that does not take itself very seriously. It is precisely for this reason that can make the joy of lovers of the action more vulgar and ignorant, but at the same time, the viewer bored to death looking for the most pretentious at all costs a consistent narrative. The Hard Way

remained confined only to the distribution on VHS, now hard to find but not impossible to find a rarity.

Memorable Scene: Henry Silva: "Let me tell you something: I love to kill people. Gratifies me. "

Rating: 2 / 5 rating
Trash: 2 / 5

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