Calling all Italian genre film fans: Umberto “Cannibal Ferox” Lenzi’s Assault with a Deadly Weapon (aka Rome Armed to the Teeth) may be the nastiest, most furious, fastest moving and supremely satisfying Euro crime lunacy ever unleashed on the public! Maurizio Merli is a tough, violent cop (and the spitting image of Franco Nero) who doesn’t mind bending the law in his one man mission to clean the streets. He’s primed to explode and has finally met his match: a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer terrorizing the city (an amazing, wisecracking Tomas Milian of The Big Gundown). Trust us, this one’s gonna play great with a crowd. Featuring a pulse-pounding Franco Micalizzi score, gorgeous Federico Zanni scope cinematography, high speed car chases and an unforgettable ambulance hijacking, Assault is an ultra-politically-incorrect poliziotteschi masterpiece packed with hard-boiled dialogue and shoot-first-ask-questions-later attitude.
