7 HOURS OF VIOLENCE is an odd and not entirely successful little Italian crime film, starring the ubiquitous George Hilton of many a giallo and spaghetti western. Here, he's almost unrecognisable beneath greasy hair and a '70s porn star moustache, playing a hitman who gets set up in the opening scene (a familiar trope in cinema even today). What follows turns out to be more of a martial arts flick than anything else, undoubtedly cashing in on the kung fu craze inspired by ENTER THE DRAGON. Hilton screams and kicks his way through endless Chinese assassins in a series of adequate fights, but outside of that this doesn't really go anywhere.
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Tarantini is not Tarantino.
searchanddestroy-115 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Well, this action flick from Italia is a pretty good time waster. Except I actually wasted, and also lost my time, to watch it. Not of my taste at all. A spaghetti action programmer, with kung-fu sequences - it was made in 1974...not for me. The story could have been worse, but it is not a very surprising one. The tale of a professional killer and also a martial arts expert who is hired for a mission he half fails to execute. So that's when his problems begin. The rest of this feature is rather predictable. Only the ending could be called a dark one, that leaves you a ashes taste in the mouth. Not bad, I must admit. But I will forget this film very soon.
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