Safecracker
Guido (Claudio Cassinelli) gets out of jail looking to make a fresh start. Almost immediately, his girlfriend is gunned
down by a pair of thugs. He suspects
kingpin Rizzo (Martin Balsam) is behind the killing, if only because
he wants his cut from Guido’s last diamond caper.
Directed
by Fernando (Man Hunt) Di Leo, Blood Diamonds is a middle of the road Italian
crime picture. It goes through the
motions competently enough, but it’s not particularly memorable or involving. Much of the problem rests with Cassinelli’s
humdrum performance. He plays his
character as an emotionless bore and pretty much sleepwalks through the role. It also doesn’t help that he slaps Barbara
Bouchet around a lot, which doesn’t exactly endear him to the audience.
Pier
Paolo Capponi is a lot more fun to watch as Tony, Balsam’s mustached right-hand
man. He has a lot of energy while
muscling people and telling them to “conform”.
You’ll wish he was the hero instead of the dull Cassinelli.
Even
though most of Blood Diamonds is a bore, Di Leo does give us one eye-popping
sequence where Bouchet go-go dances in a white bikini. The song she dances to, “Shock Me” is awesome
too and manages to name drop just about all the old school monsters you can
think of. This scene has more weird
energy and is more entertaining than the stuff with Guido looking for revenge. Fans of Bouchet will want to check it out on
the strength of this scene alone.
AKA: Blood and Diamonds.
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