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After the TV series "Romanzo criminale", absolutely perfect in every aspect you want to tackle, it's tough to maintain the position, and Stefano Sollima probably knew this well.
His film debut is disappointing, even if comparisons shouldn't be made, you can't always be at the top, everyone stumbles... the usual things you say when you're trying to find an explanation for your dissatisfaction.
This time the story is on the other side of the barricade: we are in the Mobile Squad, among the riot police, those who are supposed to defend you, take your side... protect the Nation, those who should have a robocop body and an untarnished and fearless knight's soul.
Cobra, Negro, and Mazinga are a team, perhaps made crazy by the hate absorbed through osmosis from the endless humanity loaded with resentment in which they find themselves splashing around like in an open sewer, upon which they unleash legalized hate and violence! The word "legalized" is frightening, but this is precisely the problem: behind the shields, during a charge, they are alone with themselves and with the awareness that they can do whatever they want, massacre criminals and innocents (how can you recognize them?).
The direction is good, although often the camera does not become part of the events, it remains outside: it fails to engage you, yet it succumbs to the great allure of the violence that it soon wants to condemn... in this case, "in media stat virtus" does not apply.
A separate note for the performances of Pierfrancesco Favino and Filippo Nigro: great transmitters of emotions.
For a film that was supposed to be scandalous for the topics covered, it seems rather an own goal, not even that unexpected.
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