Pour les anges seul le crime est payant

Really funny italian comedy with Spencer-Gemma instead a missing Hill, even so Gemma didn't disappoint as Hill's replacement, these two guy are fabulous as newcomers to Mob in Chicago, they tried to be bad, but somehow they driven by good heart and end up help whose they get the money, in the best scenes where the boss faces the Judiah a sort a informer who asking to receive your 30 dollars not in bill but in coins!!! Amuzing parody, worth every cents spent in this DVD!!

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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

This is essentially a Trinity-style comedy, except that this time Giuliano Gemma is paired with Bud Spencer and the place is the Italian gangland, not the Western. Our heroes are trying to become good gangsters, but they just cannot be as ruthless as the job requires. The move to gangland territory works extremely well, especially as some of the Trinity-style humour appears much more natural here, closer to home, in the setting it originated from. Gemma is also a more than adequate substitute for Terence Hill.

Don't miss the martial arts sequence!

I liked the start of the movie but I did find most part of the middle not funny and not really going anywhere. This movie should in my opinion had been an hour shorter or had some better content in the middle.

All involved did a fine enough job just far too long spent in the middle without being funny or moving the story anywhere. Had it at least been cut to 90 minutes that may also have made the remaining movie better paced. for 3 hours there are far too few fights in this movie.

So my recommendation is to find another Bud Spencer comedy instead of this movie.

Bud Spencer is a wrestler on the run because he won't take a dive. Giuliano Gemma is an ice-cream maker ont he run because he can't afford to pay off a bet. They decide to join a mob, and impress boss Robert Middleton. But they are so inept that they start a mob war with the neighboring gang.

This looks like it was supposed to be another team-up between Spencer and Terence Hill, but Gemma got the role instead. He plays it a lot less cool than Hill, but is quite funny. This allows Spencer to play a bit warmer than usual. Lot of laughs in this one, particularly when they're trying to collect from a series of broke merchants. There are some nice set designs, including movie posters from the early 1920s.

Enzo Barboni, who had previously done Lo chiamavano Trinità and...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill stray's from the Western genre with this film and attempts a Mob-comedy with this film. Now I've only seen the dubbed German version of this film, but I must say it works pretty well. In the beginning I wasn't too sure though, as the beginning was quite stupid (the ninja-stuff). But the film grew better as it went on and once it had gained some momentum, it was able to keep it until the ending, despite the fact that the fighting scenes were not too original and had been already seen in a similar way in films like Più forte, ragazzi! And the Trinity/Bambino films. Having said that, I'd like to conclude with saying that although this film is neither as great as the previosly mentioned Western-comedies with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer nor as good as Più forte, ragazzi! or Lo chiamavano Bulldozer, it still is pretty enjoyable and it sure as hell beats E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico which Barboni made in 1972 with Terence Hill.

7 out of 10