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Cop Game is an intriguing spy story, full of unexpected twists and turns that mislead suspects. As it happened in the classic films of the genre in the past. A well constructed thriller storyline. And the final twist, a surprise. The leading actors are well placed in the roles. The protagonist's jokes are funny and ironic, as was the fashion in the eighties (the film dates back to 1987. Released in 1988). Captivating the music. Too bad for the direction of Bruno Mattei who in this film is sloppy and hasty. It lacks the thriller atmosphere, tension, close-ups and details. Like the lipstick writing on the mirror. In short, the thriller is not his genre. A real missed opportunity, what a pity.

I liked the movie a lot and I hope as a fan of the first film (palermo Milan one way) that there is a third. The first film was more full of emotions, comedy and yellow, but perhaps too much melodrama, perfect and innovative in 1995, but now perhaps a little dated. The second film, "Milan Palermo Return" is technically superior to the shooting, scenic effects and narrative solutions. More detached in their feelings, no melodrama, and this is positive. I also find the closed narrative on two children, is a clever message, and positive as possible. Now I wonder, what will happen when the two children are grown? ... This could be the plot for the third film?. We hope so. Fragasso and Drudi, perfect team for: action, drama, mafia, horror, fantasy, thriller and more, with all the twists and turns of their stories, many psychological and political social, we hope to make a new return soon.

Fragasso and Drudi are not the last survivors of films years 70 d' police action or, is superficial to define them in this way. They invent the cinema every time, and go ahead experiencing various things, without never to remain attacked to the past. They are alive, I love this brace of the Italian cinema, that she remains free d' to express itself, daring, without never to yield to the mediocrity, puts into effect them. Sometimes they are thus ahead in the time, to be happens and appreciated, years after and I do not refer to the Troll2 phenomenon, but to "Skinhead "Teste Rasate", and "Palermo Milan One Way", loved from the public, but massacred from the critic then, the same critic who today of it speaks well. Fragasso and Drudi, are mind and spirit of a single body. The Drudi has a good intuition on history to carry on the screen, "Teste Rasate" , is born from she, like "Palermo Milan" and all the others to follow, history that then Fragasso spouse and realize from those great director who is, turning them with and not only, because he is oneness personality to turn, the spirit and head spouse, its films are not never cold, leaving like company, its unmistakable style. Fragasso Drudi forms an indestructible team. They love hard history with the social one, also in old the Horror, where the fantasy came mixed to the social one, with much irony, always thanks to the volcanics mind of the Drudi. Perhaps the film Virus (1980), is an example, is the first history, where it tells that, the scientists, in order to resolve the problem of the hunger of the third world, create a virus that transforms in cannibals the Africans, making to eat them between they till the extermination total, but then he escapes it to the virus of hand. (l' double irony of the Drudi in this history already obvious in dramatics problem) But speaking about Is TV movie "Blindati" (2000) is gone beyond every limit. Blindati it is pulp, it is fable, she is Gore, it is thriller, it is adventure it is the Mafia, it is the family and the power, the strong and political power of the families tied to the Mafia, ndrangheta,camorra-racket, sacred joined crown, to all the Mafias d' Italy. That they leave from the family of blood and the family that spouse and that follows itself to life in the ndrangheta. Blindati it has the features of the Greek tragedy, of the rest the Drudi has always put in written its and evidenced, the studies classics of Omero, and its love for they. Fragasso loves complex history between heart and violence. Fragasso loves the strong colors, repeats does not know alone to turn well, enough not to know to turn if he is not able to interpret history many complex, if it is not in degrees to direct the actors. Fragasso loves an exaggerated actors performance, lives and masculine. it succeeds to pull outside all from an actor with great energy. Blindati, to 10 years all' escape conserve a Young and only originality. Enough to see the fiction today that they make to cry, all equal and banal ones. Fragasso and Drudi go protect like a species in dead of extinction and not for the ties to the past, but for their intelligence, sensibility and creativity. Fragasso and Drudi, loved or hated without going of means, because they have canceled the means way from their DNA. Blindati it goes today seen and see again, "most current the monster and the killer hide in family." like in Blindati. To see also for the special effects, never seen before (the dive and fall of one of the siblings on the rock, in sea, without that the MDP never detaches) realized with intelligence and wisdom. Fragasso and Drudi are completed in all. The Drudi is a fan of resumption technology (computer graphic) of paranormal, fantasy and demonology, history that then that tells to Fragasso and it makes its. I have had the pleasure to see them to work with on the set and truly they form an only body and mind. They must continue to work thus. Blindati to see also for who it does not love the decided, colored cinema and hard, of sure will not never be bored, finding a beautiful surprise outside the equal ordinary all who by now reigns in TV. Because Blindati, even if it is dealt like a movie, it is a fiction for the TV of two heading all to see, with a cast stellar, from Stefania Sandrelli on all.

This film is wonderful. A piece of great cinema, worthy to be today in the history, I know that a classic in Italy is considered and have reason. C' it is the comedy, the drama, l' action, the denunciation against the Mafia and the institutions corrupts, the feelings of the personages, the relationships between father and adolescent daughter, a love only thought and never bloomed between the daughter of the young sorry and of the policemen. In the history, it comes told and described, also the precarious job and the poverty of means, of the Italian police. The human relationships between the policemen, introduced like persons, and not like policemen. Others of their age are young equal to many, than but they do not wear an uniform. The from strong emotion that they are tried, during the race in machine, in along travel, meant like life increase, a travel will always change that them in order. Optimal direction, I love Fragasso, for the scene of the public square, where it catches up the levels of " Rome city open" for intensity and the end that I will not say in order not to reveal nothing. A perfect script and sage. It converses deep and touching, like that one on the dialog of "tuna died", splendidly recited from Giancarlo Giannini, indeed intelligent, then, to break off the d.c. voltage of the film, with struck much funny, between the two policemen, in roman regional language. I adore Tarcisio (Valerio Mastandrea) Assisting to the film, has the feeling to be with to they, within blots some to them of the police. I have loved quickly this film, are beautiful also the extras of the DVD and its continuation that council " Milan Palermo the Ritorno" received very well to the festival of Los Angeles, like law in the messages on IMDb.com. Bravo Fragasso, little means and great ability, goodness knows if in America know that a its film costs less than cent of theirs? (one milliard of old lira 1995) Bravo to Rossella Drudi for the pen d' gold and l' originality d' ideas. Bravo to all the cast, every character is right in its space. Musics of Donaggio Pine, are involved melting itself in the scenes. To see

the history of this film is simple. E' the history of goblin and the not continuation of troll, this explains because there are the goblin in the film and because the country calls nilbog (goblin on the contrary) the protagonist is a child. the history is a social black fable. the child sees the ghost of the grandfather and speaks with he. it and its family help it to the grandfather to save themselves from who want to kill. the assassins are the vegetarians that tire dell' man who poisons the earth, decides to eliminate it. E' a fable of the ecology told in funny ironic way. The budget was much low, 150,00 dollars. (1989) But today are understood that the nature has reason to rebel itself and to wanting to killing l' man in order to save the earth. Sin that the little money for the film has forced the production to take personages who are not professionals actors and that they do not know to recite. Their inexpressive faces render comedian all. However it is a fable to see and to show our sons. Because the nature offense the man for too many years is rebelling itself. The meat is infested, to eat makes it to come the cancer. The truth of the film is that the true bad ones are the men and not it appeals to me the goblin. In the end they gain the goblin and is right thus. To me it is a lot the sense and the way, a true philosophy of life dealt with lightness and great irony. perhaps is this the mystery that wraps the phenomenon of the film? … and goodness knows how many other esoteric mysteries are hidden in the symbols, the brand on the faces of the people of the nilbog are a four-leaf clover, the chlorophyll are the blood of the plants, the magic and the power of Stonehenge. The goblin they come from the Ireland green. The mirror from where the grandfather appears, is like the magical mirror in the fable of Alyce in the country of the wonders, and then the Queen of the goblin, and the double boloni sandwich,used like arm against goblin the vegetarians. you reflect, laughing says always the truth to us.

In answer to bethlambert117, it is American, even if says to live in Italy, and perhaps for this she has not understood well the history and she converses of the film. With how much it writes offends the director, because it is thus stupid not to know to choose a good script. From the hardly seen interviews in the extras of the DVD, of the film, many times over the director says l' exact contrary, speaking own about the script, than was very constructed and dell' engagement that have had to put in order to respect some suspense, pathos and social denunciation. The director speaks about the double spirit of the script uniform between action and drama, for being involved and stimulating he a lot. Also l' author of the script, declares that l' idea is born from she, that it has made long searches, and with great courage it has spoken directly with the soldiers hit from the tumor in mission, than they have told their history to them. They are stupid?, and absurdities all also they. I converse I am exactly those used in the military language, the speeches of Moresco Colonel, I have found them beautiful and deep, l' author has found the language of the Colonel, being confronted with a true one. (stupid or ridicule also he?) perhaps guilty can itself be rendered the script for an excess of realism, inserted all' inside of a fantasy history, with real facts. Melodramma ago the part of our history and culture, is born from the comedy dell' art, and appeals to us. The tragic-comic term is born from this. An example for all: " The Great War" directed Mario Monicelli. Today they would say that it is ridicule with converses absurd and melò with drama also that one? The funny struck ones in the film, left to the girls and the patient dell' hospital, makes smiles, because born for this. They are ironic and thin and never directly comic, shadings difficult to perhaps perceive, for she. Fragasso is a great director and not only d' action or of kind, he knows to give emotions and feeling also in the center of a war, flood of shots and race blots with them of it, and makes it, without to watch to the past, but thinking next to the future. The Italian cinema cannot be single comedy, must return to having the great industry, when the cinema of Italian kind was all the cinema. And films were produced: adventure, fantasy, westerns, police, thriller, espionage, action and horror. Today not it is null than all this. Instead offending and despising who it has the courage to carry ahead the kind cinema, being succeeded to make it well and with little money, going against all and all those producers that only think to make money with film trade them (the comedies), of sure proceeds, always taking the same actors, those more paid that they make box office. I would support two authors like they, than from years they carry various, beautiful films ahead and never boring's, always changing the cast, making to new experience and discovering new young people you turn. I follow them from the times of film: "Teste Rasate", "Palermo Milano Solo Andata", " La Banda" "Concorso Di Colpa", "Blindati" Operazione Odissea", "Coppia Omicida" "Milano - Palermo: il ritorno", and many many,others till before the last film " Le ultime 56 ore". All these films,have always signed them entirety, creed that is a wonderful brace that works with from nearly 30 years, and with great result.But a true brace of job and life. I hope that they continue to still realize, many, and many, and many other beautiful st films. You are great! ... W the Fragassi.