A Bromance with Bikes
Aldo Lado gives us a much lighter film that Night Train Murders this time around, with a tale of a bromance...a criminal bromance, with motorcycle racing.
Sandro (Massimo Rieneri from Death Rage) is a humble pastry chef who also moonlights as a waiter. He's bored working for the man and wouldn't mind a big break, and things start looking up once young, hunky Pericles (Dallesandro) robs a dinner party he's working at. This leads him to get paid off, but he does meet up with Joe again, and after being charmed by Joe's confidence and ambition, lets him stay at his apartment.
Looks like a bromance is blossoming, although the way Joe walks about the place in the nude made me think Joe was wanting to take things a little further. Joe's excuse for the nudity was that he was having some sort of severe headache due to a prior motorcycle race injury, and that he just need fresh air. I didn't think Sandro looked that convinced.
Joe teaches Sandro how to bag snatch and grift and before you know it the two of them have stolen a bag from Marzia, who doesn't have much money but does own a red-hot diary that makes Sandro track her down for a date on the pretence that he found her purse. As you can see, so far, things aren't that grim in this film. Mostly.
Some kind of a plot arrives in the form of Joe's casual lover Marisa Mell (He even uses motorcycle dialogue while in the sack!). Marisa needs some money shifted out of the country and when Joe finds out how that's to be done, he comes up with a plan for one last heist. He also discovers there's a motorcycle race on, so he comes up with a plan for one last motorcycle race...
Given the lightweight material of the plot, Aldo Lado still manages to keep you interested in what's going on because of the chemistry between Joe and Sandro, and, let's face it, the immense amount of homo-eroticism between the two. Even when Marzia gets involved with Sandro, she wants Joe to join in! As this is a crime flick and not a comedy, there is an increasing amount of violence leading up to the end of the film, plus motorcycle racing if that's your thing.
Sandro (Massimo Rieneri from Death Rage) is a humble pastry chef who also moonlights as a waiter. He's bored working for the man and wouldn't mind a big break, and things start looking up once young, hunky Pericles (Dallesandro) robs a dinner party he's working at. This leads him to get paid off, but he does meet up with Joe again, and after being charmed by Joe's confidence and ambition, lets him stay at his apartment.
Looks like a bromance is blossoming, although the way Joe walks about the place in the nude made me think Joe was wanting to take things a little further. Joe's excuse for the nudity was that he was having some sort of severe headache due to a prior motorcycle race injury, and that he just need fresh air. I didn't think Sandro looked that convinced.
Joe teaches Sandro how to bag snatch and grift and before you know it the two of them have stolen a bag from Marzia, who doesn't have much money but does own a red-hot diary that makes Sandro track her down for a date on the pretence that he found her purse. As you can see, so far, things aren't that grim in this film. Mostly.
Some kind of a plot arrives in the form of Joe's casual lover Marisa Mell (He even uses motorcycle dialogue while in the sack!). Marisa needs some money shifted out of the country and when Joe finds out how that's to be done, he comes up with a plan for one last heist. He also discovers there's a motorcycle race on, so he comes up with a plan for one last motorcycle race...
Given the lightweight material of the plot, Aldo Lado still manages to keep you interested in what's going on because of the chemistry between Joe and Sandro, and, let's face it, the immense amount of homo-eroticism between the two. Even when Marzia gets involved with Sandro, she wants Joe to join in! As this is a crime flick and not a comedy, there is an increasing amount of violence leading up to the end of the film, plus motorcycle racing if that's your thing.
- Bezenby
- 16 oct 2018