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简介

Umbert$o Lenzi is und\+oubtedly t/>':he kin>= ,g of* Itali*
@an c :]rime>:: movi]#/es, but unfo)rtun"?ately; Sy^<ndicate `Sadists *>[is not #(, ,#the @b-;est( = examples of his work i@n t;h\@=i@_*$#s) genr>^$e. Lenzi's crime( flick:s ten((d to be a (cut @(above th+`e rest because he make s films bas-$ed on stories w>$ith a point, and they don't _ la/?;c*?(k d*
ire;;ct-_ion; @? (bu'
t this film/# feels :a b\it t.+\<oo >way_'war.` ,d >!]t/!^
o f[-ully +&fi>t with the rest of his ,`'stu'ff. The film(\ +ta\
kes obvious inf_$luence f[!rom-:!+ Sergio Leone's l=
andmark western ' _*A Fistful `o)
f Dollar/.s' (which@ `/in t:=`urn, took influ/."ence from Aki=ra Kurosawa< ''&(*s )<land=mark* samurai flick Y<%ojimbo), in that i=t feature* s two! warring fami$;lies and*<]_ a stron=$g ch @ar'%acter +_at the c-_e_ntre.,#
The crime t =^hat Lenzi focuse/=s on is kidnapping,+%& and we cen..tre"` on a$+ c(`haracter ?[called -:'Rambo'<. Rambo i^[s d*'ragged in&;to the war b',etween the two fami!?lies af@ter his b>+.r other i)s killed beca<-use^/ &of it. Ramb^# `o uses his:'(& .)b.%-r -ains and brawn to p&# it,+ the t!wo ;-famili<,%<e*s against o)ne- anot"her, in the hop#]e of gaining re!v;enge for his b_$rothe:%r's dea,\ th, rescuing* a [young boy that they've %<kidnap;_ped, and ultim.%`ately let \"ting%` t#he two sides  destroy o\=ne another.<
&_　　The film's b']/iggest a[ %sset ./!is undoubtedly$! Tomas (, Milian. M #ilian#  was $pu#>/t /to *";*great use by Lenzi i&n a ;lmost all o(.f his crime th'rillers. The range of,*+ charact #$ers 'he ]\has play`ed> ?_&for Len(%zi is immense, and thi+:*!s one-; is easily one of t"he \#cooles%(t. The&,= chara*cter is called Rambo, whic`;[h i-m-['] mediat?=#`?ely sprang to m>!ind ) @the; popular Sylvest/*er Stallone character - but) +@ &]\for
 once, the #</Ita,lians actu$`ally haven't stolen this" na`<me as S! y"]#ndicate  Sadist\s was releas 
ed* first! As usual, th\,&e ,film is wi] ckedly &] entert/@a[_ in ;ing, as we ge (%t to  ?' w@* atch Mil/]ian get hi"m""+sel*f involved #in@ t =he '?.us\ual ar,:>%]ray &of car <
chases, shoot)*outs >`and brawls. Le@=@ nzi has got him ridi
&# ng a mot&* o] +rbik+>-e t,his ti...me ro(und,  "and "every scene featuring i!%-*t an'`d`  '&Milia(]n is%@$ a &(real standout! However, the film -/of@t$e`[`n fee\@!l^,s #)[lik.:,e it doe>sn^)/'t really have any*$#%w_"here to go, and this m' eans that the r,>?un=$:ning time is s"(
%tretched o =ut ]>more than%@ it shoul/d[ be. ]_Compared *%\!to the crime films of other[(_ I\talian di
><re/-=ctor-?s, ;!Syn
#dicat e Sadis()ts i) s more t^.ha&#_n above aver;` ag]]?e; but ?in@ relatio-n.% to ^]Le)=nzi " '*crime flicks such a.]s Almo st Human and The Cynic, The Ra-["t and .<-The Fist - it doesn't stand t-@al(%_l as one of?]&] Lenzi+.'s bes?t.>> Still, if yo@*u're ^loo%k -ing for ninety <m[inu`[?tes. of testosterone fuelled mayhem' -@ Syndicate Sad=<@\is@=ts wil^+*l suffi#c^@e!