Crime Busters

Some movies are just made for lazy afternoons. They usually don't require too much attention and can be enjoyed even while you're doing something else, be it chores or messing around on your laptop. Crime Busters, like many Italian films, is one of those type of movies. There's something reassuring about the combination of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer [love his jacket in this that has "JUMBO" written across the back in cheap looking lettering.] Doesn't matter if they are in the Wild West or on the mean streets of Miami, you know that Terence Hill will make a fool out of the bad guys, Bud Spenser will be a combination of irresistible force and immovable object, logic will probably take a holiday, and fun will be had. That sentence went a little long. So does CRIME BUSTERS. Hill and Spencer meet on the docks. Both are out of work and get on the wrong side of some kind of vague organized crime group that controls the union jobs. Both Hill and Spenser manage to get the better of their foes, but are still out of work so Terence [whom I always want to call Trinity no matter what movie he's in] has the idea of robbing a grocery store. But it turns out the grocery store is actually a police station, so to cover themselves our heroes decide to sign up for the force. A whole lot happens over the next 100 minutes or so and the mind can wander at times [the weird showdown between the good guys and some kind of weird Indian wannabe biker gang at the Orange Bowl really bogs stuff down] but it all works out in the end. Think I may try to re-visit some of the Trinity films next...