Città violenta (1970)

For a boring evening like this, an action movie with Charles Bronson is not the wrong solution. Violent city is gritty, the kind of gritty you expect from a gangster movie made in 1970. What is striking about it is how slow it is. During the first half of the movie, barely a word is uttered. A sense of foreboding in the air. We follow an endless car chase, a guy waiting in a bush, a race car circuit. For an action movie, this is kind of weird. Beyond that, this is nothing out of the ordinary. A hitman hooks up with his old girlfriend. Revenge is to be taken on those who set him up in the first section of the movie, comprising a car chase, a shootout. But who set him up? The rest of the story revolves around mobsters, seedy criminals and power games. Sergio Sollima is the director of this slightly misanthropic action movie and Ennio Morricone made the music. Not bad, but sexist as hell, and uneven in quality. Some great scenes made this film worth its 90 minutes.