The film is a sequel to
‘Borsalino’ made by the same director. It begins with funeral of Francois
Capella (the character played by Belmondo in ‘Borsalino’). He’s the close
associate of Roch Sifferedi’s and remained almost like his brother. Sifferedi
soon found the man responsible for his murder. He’s Italian mobster named
Francesco Volpone and threw him from moving train but the very next station his
elder brother Giovanni Volpone, the stiff rival gangster waiting for his
brother and he sniffed the matter. Soon Senior Volpone made life straight
downfall for Sifferedi; and the rest is bloody vendetta, rivalry, lawless town
and volatile hard time.
The brilliant camaraderie between
Belmondo-Delon is absent here, as Belmondo died in the first part and so Delon
is the solo man here and besides its quite serious gangster film unlike
entertaining and playful first half of the earlier one. However Derey
maintained high points of the film even though its theme is out and out
vendetta film. Alain Delon’s enigmatic screen presence, authentic period
detailing and setting and production of shifting thirties, classic background
score and fine camera work, action, thrill and shocking violence and unimaginable
climax on the train! It has everything what we may expect from chiseled noir or
classic gangster flick.
Ratings-7/10
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