The Heroin Busters (1977)

- La via della droga
Good, but not the movie I had hoped for, 9 May 2006

I finally got the chance to see The Heroin Busters and while I thought it was good, I didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Maybe it's another of the cases where I built up a movie too much before I saw it because it wasn't the film I had been anticipating. The Heroin Busters gets off to a good start with a opening credit sequence featuring a montage of scenes highlighting drug trafficking in Hong Kong, Columbia, and Rome set to some nice 80s action-style music. The action sequences in The Heroin Busters are good, but the promised motorcycle and airplane chase big finale wasn't all that I had been led to believe it would be. It's good, but it ran a little too long for me. The action sequence immediately preceding the supposed big finish where Fabio Testi is being chased through the construction site is easily one of my favorite moments in the film. On the acting side, both Testi and David Hemmings are fine in their roles and I especially enjoyed the few scenes they had together. "Few" being the key word as I would have liked more shared screen time between the two. Finally, I never really bought the notion of Testi as a drug dealer. I knew something was up as soon as he came on screen.

6/10