The Italian Connection
La mala ordina (Manhunt in Milan)
Synopsis
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him. But soon the hunted becomes the hunter…
Our take
Fernando Di Leo’s Caliber 9 was a wild ride, but it was just part one! The director returned to his acclaimed “Milieu Trilogy” for this centerpiece, bringing his taste for lurid action, sharp turns, and total mayhem to a super-cool, weirdly comical revenge thriller.
Critics reviews
The drizzly Italian winter scenery [of Caliber 9] imbues it with a compelling chilliness, a sub-flavor of Jean-Pierre Melville, especially in the relationship between the protagonist and an old buddy of his who lives by a code. The Italian Connection, which is also set in Milan, is a different animal, more diffuse and in some ways less formally accomplished, but more dramatically ambitious.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
May 19, 2018
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