Will it ever end?, 19 November 2020
A PI is hired to track down a killer. In addition, his client’s murdered husband was carrying a fortune in diamonds that she’d like to get back.
Overall, Fistful of Diamonds is pretty much a dud. I’m not sure of the actual runtime, but it felt like it lasted hours. It took me two excruciating nights to get through it. The film features the same action set-pieces over and over. Good guy fights bad guys, good guy rescues girl, girl ends up back with bad guys - repeat ad nauseum. The fights scenes, in particular, are especially boring and seem to go on forever. And, it doesn’t help that the movie was intended to be a comedy. The bits and pieces that were meant to be funny go over about as well as the action - boring. On the acting side, I’ve seen Franco Ressel and Erika Blanc in plenty of other, better films, so I know they’re capable. Unfortunately, they don’t have anything to work with here.
On the positive side, the score was nice. Very reminiscent of something from a 60s James Bond film. And, given the film only has 6 votes on IMDb at the time I’m writing this means it’s something of a rarity. Even though Fistufl of Diamonds is pretty horrible, it’s always a little fun to discover something so few people have seen.
3/10
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