Finders Killers / Se t’incontro, t’ammazzo (Gianni Crea, 1971)

[Mickey13]

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@Mickey13

While it is probably Crea’s least abominable work all things considered, it’s still an obnoxious mess of a motion picture in that it is terminally marred by its director’s aberrant incompetence. Film’s framing, editing, scene transitions and overall decoupage are all so choppy and cumbersome it is difficult to immerse oneself in the narrative and as if that were not bad enough, most of the storyline revolves around equestrian frolicking in the sandpits and the inveterate fisticuffs, so there is not much to direct one’s attention to.

That being said, the dialogues in the English dub are on the laughable side insofar as they partially cancel out the aforementioned narrative vacuity, plus the fight at the cemetery gives a good laugh. There is no denying that the regularity with which Crea misses the mark regading the visual aspect of his works firmly establishes him as genre’s worst director visually, all his movies look like shit, this thing included. All in all, Crea’s best film probably, that being said, the visual amateurship, the meager plot, the chronic misuse of recycled music as well as general stupidity vitiate the outing to the extent that it is still one of the very worst flicks the genre has to offer and at the length of about 90 minutes, it simply goes on for far too fucking long.