Henry
Silva stars as a hit man who in the opening scene, gets the drop on a bunch of
gangsters and blows them up while they're watching a skin flick. This sequence is dirty, mean, and violent and
gets things off to a rollicking start. Too
bad nothing else in the rest of the picture can top it. It’s always a shame when a movie blows its
wad right from the get-go.
The gangsters retaliate by kidnapping the daughter of Silva’s mob boss. They hold her captive and repeatedly rape
her. The thing is, she’s a nymphomaniac
and loves the attention. When Silvia
rescues her, she comes on to him and she’s such a fantastic lay that he decides
he wants to keep her for himself. He
then sets out to take down her father and become the new mafia boss.
Despite the excellent opening scene, The Boss is a dreary and dull gangster
picture. The constant double-crossing
gets tiresome almost immediately and none of the drama with the warring mobsters
is very interesting. The action sequences
are few and far between and they do little to spice things up. There’s one cool stunt where Silva drives
directly through a car, effectively cutting it in half, but that’s about
it. Although the nympho subplot helps to
make it memorable, this is definitely the weakest film in director Fernando Di
Leo’s Milieu Trilogy.
AKA: Murder Inferno. AKA:
Wipeout!
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