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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ripped Off (1972)

An Italian action crime film directed by Franco Prosperi, starring Robert Blake and Ernest Borgnine.
A young boxing champion's criminal manager is killed and he is the prime suspect. To save himself from jail, he must find who really killed the manager.
Upon reading the plot after viewing the film, most of the film had little to do with the plot. It seems like an awful lot of Stephen King style setup for a cheap Italian crime film. The characters were barely identifiable and easily confused due to stereotypical '70s fashion choices. Fortunately for us, most of the bad guys had mustaches and the good guys had relatively clean shaven upper lips. The audio and video were lo-fi '70s standard and I was afraid that I was turning on a kung fu film when it first started. The style was generic enough to deserve no further description. The only scene that caught my attention was in the diner, the main character pours various items onto the counter and mixes them together. Overall, it's just another '70s crime flick. I rate it poor.

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