Italian actor Massimo Girotti a.k.a. Terrence Hill in his long and prolific career played mostly in action comedies, but despite seeming limitations of the genre, that part of filmography showed quite a variety, ranging from comedic variations on westerns, gangster films, swashbuckling adventures and contemporary police films. Among those titles Super Fuzz a.k.a. Super Snooper, 1980 film directed by Sergio Corbucci, stands out as Hill’s venture into superhero genre.
Hill plays Dave Speed, rookie Miami policeman who is sent by Sergeant William Dunlop (played by Ernest Borgnine), his superior and partner, to deliver parking summons to the family of Indians living in Everglades. By unfortunate set of coincidences, the location is used by US government’s top secret experiment involving missile loaded with plutonium. Speed is irradiated but not only miraculously survives, but also develops superpowers that allow him to hypnotise people, survive lethal injuries, manipulate objects with his mind and see through walls. All that comes handy during his regular police work, despite Dunlop being sceptical and Dunlop’s niece and Speed’s girlfriend Evelyn (played by Julie Gordon) being uncomfortable with that sort of power. Biggest problem for Speed is that those powers tend to inexplicably and suddenly disappear and it takes him some time to discover it has something to do with seeing the colour red. In the meantime, Miami mobster Tony Torpedo (played by Marc Lawrence) organises major distribution of counterfeit dollar bills which is being thwarted by Speed until his mistress and former actress Rosy Labouche (played by Joanne Dru), who also happens object of Dunlop’s decades-long crush, discover young policeman’s weakness.
Like Hill, director Sergio Corbucci had very long and prolific filmography, but it was more varied in terms of genre. His best works were made in 1960s and belonged to spaghetti western genre, resulting in few classics. Corbucci was less successful with comedies and same can be said of this film, made primarily for US audience and, like many Italian productions at the time, shot in Miami. Hill again delivers good with his great combination of acrobatic and comedic skills, creating a likeable character most of the audience would cheer for despite few scenes in which he abuses some of its powers. His partner Ernest Borgnine, on the other hand, struggles with poorly written character. Veteran character actor Marc Lawrence, specialist for roles of gangland heavies, is much better even with his character being collection of cliches and same can be said of Classic Hollywood actress Joanne Dru in her last role, in which she even gets opportunity to pay homage to Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Most of the humour is, however, of juvenile variety, although Corbucci and his co-writer Sabatino Ciuffini occasionally show get moments of inspiration. Whether the viewers can truly enjoy this film or not mostly depends on their tolerance for primitive special effects and a rather annoying disco soundtrack provided by Michelangelo and Carmelo La Bionda.
RATING: 5/10 (++)
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