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Release Date: 11 March, 2003 Retail Price: $24.99 OUR Price: $22.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: |
Contraband Reviews
sleazy but ok
This film is incredible. the plot is a joke - i looked at the ceiling several times, wondering what the hell were they thinking. It has the trademark fulci violence and - wait - it even has lucio fulci himself, machine gun in hand, killing some bad guys! now this is what i call class! it's hilarious: a guy in a horse race screams «he won! he won!», then he looks back, with his mouth open and gets a gun barrel in the mouth and boom! a seller of cut cocaine gets her face blowtorched!... it's... well it's funny! the soundtrack is a treat, you keep humming it after the film ended... all the elements of sleaze are here but fans of fulci should seek this one out.
Lucio Corleone
3:00AM, early this morning-Lucio Fulci night at the Runk house. Basically Fulci night is any time the wife and kid are sleeping coz they don't care much for these kinds of films. I viewed Fulci's Contraband. The saints at Blue Underground re-released it this week. Why they released it last year, stopped and released it again this year is anyone's guess. Anyhow, with Contraband Fulci decided to see what would happen if he took his trademark gore and violence and stick them in a mafioso/crime/action flick. The results? Not too bad actually. Since Fulci's not working in the horror genre this time, the film plays it pretty straightforward-none of the eye closeups or weird, dreamy phantasmagoric horror stuff. In fact, if it weren't for the gore and the Fulci cameo, you'd have no idea he made the film. For a plot we have Fabio Testi as a cigarette smuggler with connections to the mob. His wife's always nagging him to get out of the mob life, but do you think he listens? Some new mafioso comes in and basically tries to wipe out all the competetion and make way for drug smuggling. That's about it. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way about this film is Fabio. He's a decent actor and looks like a butt-kicking Bronson type, but throughout the entire movie he's.....well, basically a wuss. You expect him to snap into high gear and take on the mob, all guns blazing, but he's actually a big wimp. In one particularly disturbing scene he just sits expressionless as he listens to his wife get raped over the phone. The rape is the most unsettling thing in the film-not because it's terribly graphic, but because the actress does such a freakin' convincing job! The gore is not as extreme as you're led to believe. For the casual viewer, yes it is. If you're familiar with Fulci's horror films, it's not all that shocking. It mostly consists of alot of bloody gunshot wounds. Plus, you'll have to wait an hour before you really see any. But there's no need to rely on the gore, coz the film's really not that bad. The story's nothing original, but it's done in a cheesy B movie way that's good enough to keep you interested. All in all, Fulci's stab at a gangster flick wasn't bad, but there's a reason he's famous for his horror films.
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