What a beautiful movie!

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

International heroin smugglers are traveling between Colombia, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New York and Rome plying their sinister trade. Mike Hamilton (Hemmings) is an Interpol agent obsessed with stemming the tide of drugs from these professional narcotics-smuggling gangs. But he's in his office. On the actual streets is Fabio (Testi), an undercover cop who makes plenty of enemies in the underworld. It all comes to a head when said baddies all come after Fabio, and he has to use all his wits to get away with his life. Can he do it? There seems to be no end to the amazing contributions of Enzo G. Castellari to the world of filmed entertainment. From Light Blast (1985) to his post-apocalyptic Video Store Classics 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) and The New Barbarians (1983), to his Westerns like Any Gun Can Play (1967), to his trilogy of top-notch Poliziotteschi, Street Law (1974), The Big Racket (1976) and, this, The Heroin Busters, the list goes on and on. Is there anything he can't do? When you're adept at so many genres, that level of talent opens you up to new audiences, and many different types of film fans have a special place in their hearts for Enzo. We certainly do.Everything is top-notch here, from the way it's shot and edited, to the acting, clothing, set design, etc., it's firing on all cylinders. Enzo seemed to really want to show the grossness and evil of drugs, showing the subculture not as glamorous and exciting, but as disgusting and dingy. David Hemmings puts in an energetic performance, and the icing on the cake is the typically-stellar Goblin soundtrack.But truly the man of the hour is Fabio Testi. He seems so effortlessly cool in everything he does, and pretty much the last half-hour of this movie is him doing a lot of super-awesome things. Enzo just stacks ingenious on top of ingenious until the audience is overwhelmed. If you've seen it , you know what we mean, and if you haven't, the excellent Blue Underground DVD is available, now at an all-new low price. You can't afford to NOT see it.The Heroin Busters is yet another jewel in the crown of Enzo, as well as everyone else involved with this fine production.

Ezio Castellari's crime thriller hits the ground running & rarely lets up. David Hemmings is an Interpol agent tracking the clandestine activities of a lot of drug pushers, users, and well...just about anyone else in on the drug scene in Rome circa 1977. It's ridiculous, hopelessly convoluted but always entertaining. Castellari is a master at this type of film and he's in top form. Hemmings is a tad too tightly wound but he has great chemistry with Fabio Testi, ideally cast as a deep undercover cop. The sometimes intrusive pop-synth score by frequent Argento collaborator Goblin could have been toned down but it's a minor flaw in this classic. Sherry Buchanan plays a junkie. The dynamite cinematography is by Giovanni Bergamini.

Poliziotteschi is a category of film that will rarely if ever let you down. This particular Poliziotteschi or Euro crime is yet another brilliant work of Enzo Castellari's, one of the key players in this genre. This movie is a classic, very entertaining, packed with action, a strong plot and Fabio Testi to top it all off! Ignore any mediocre reviews, this movie is phenomenal. A must see especially for fans of euro crime. In this movie Fabio Testi plays an officer who goes deep cover in the heroin game to try and take out the big boys of the operation. Only one cop is aware of the undercover op, so this movie is basically Testi vs. the world with one cop on his side. The action in this movie continues from beginning to end and the question is continually asked, who is more of a threat to Fabio, the heroin dealers he is trying to bust or his fellow police officers who believe him to be another drug dealing son of a bitch?!

This crime thriller tells the story of an undercover cop (Fabio Testi) who has to "play" a drug dealer so that the real dealers accept him as a member of their syndicate and he can come close to the big men at the top of the syndicate. As it is the problem with many genre films of its decade, the depiction of the drug dealers, their environments and the investigating methods of the undercover cop looks clichéd and hilariously out of date. Except for that, this is a highly entertaining, action packed film.Fabio Testi never looks like a real drug dealer, but who cares, his acting is solid as ever. David Hemmings as the police inspector who knows about Testi's true identity brings English flair to the role with his sometimes almost exaggerated British accent. The supporting cast consists of many faces familiar from other Italian genre outings (e.g. the ruthless syndicate killer in Lucio Fulci's "Luca il Contrabbandiere" from 1981, also starring Testi in the lead role), and the score by the (at that time) Argento regulars "Goblin" just rocks. There are some quite original action sequences, especially the climax, in which director Enzo Girolami delivers a plane chase for once instead of a car chase (and this plane chase looks daring sometimes). Because the simple plot always pushes the action forward, the movie never becomes boring and delivers.Certainly not Enzo Girolami's best film (his "La Polizia Incrimina, la Legge Assolve" is probably the best Italian crime film ever made), mainly because the story is never really convincing, but it's fast paced and will please every fan of Italian crime thrillers.