STUNT SQUAD is another above average Italian polizia film from a genre packed with rare gems. These '70s films always packed in groovy and exciting music tracks with fast-paced plots and hefty amounts of violence that Hollywood-style productions would inevitably shy away from. This film features the titular motorbike-riding cop squad who are employed to track down a gangster in the city who has been running a protection racket single-handedly.
There is much to enjoy about STUNT SQUAD, which ticks all of the right boxes and delivers entertainment in spades. It's not the most action-packed of its type but the car chases and stunt crashes are handled with aplomb and the direction is never less than exciting. Marcel Bozzuffi, the French actor best known for playing the hit-man in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, is a fine choice as the tough cop who assembles the team, and Vittorio Mezzogiorno is thoroughly reprehensible as the ruthless bad guy. The film doesn't skimp on the violence either with explicit bombs, a hospital murder as gory as any giallo, and a literally crowd-pleasing climax. One disco scene with topless stripping women supplies the nudity quotient. STUNT SQUAD is what I call top entertainment.
There is much to enjoy about STUNT SQUAD, which ticks all of the right boxes and delivers entertainment in spades. It's not the most action-packed of its type but the car chases and stunt crashes are handled with aplomb and the direction is never less than exciting. Marcel Bozzuffi, the French actor best known for playing the hit-man in THE FRENCH CONNECTION, is a fine choice as the tough cop who assembles the team, and Vittorio Mezzogiorno is thoroughly reprehensible as the ruthless bad guy. The film doesn't skimp on the violence either with explicit bombs, a hospital murder as gory as any giallo, and a literally crowd-pleasing climax. One disco scene with topless stripping women supplies the nudity quotient. STUNT SQUAD is what I call top entertainment.