Verdict
Summary
From Fernando Di Leo, the hardboiled mob thriller The Boss completes his unofficial mob trilogy that began with Caliber 9 and continued on with The Italian Connection. All three are solid cold-blooded thrillers, and Silva maintained his cool, stone hearted persona with this one
Plot:
An assassin kicks up a hornets nest with the mob.
Review:
A bunch of mob bosses convene to watch a porno film in a private cinema screening room. A stone faced hitman named Nick (Henry Silva) has them all right where he wants them. With perfect precision, he kills them all with a sniper’s rifle armed with exploding projectiles. In one swoop, he kills them all. Panic within the mob ensues. Since Nick didn’t kill the ultimate boss, a plan of retribution is hatched: A team of enforcers are called in to kidnap the teen daughter of Nick’s boss. When they have her, they store her in a room, where they proceed to strip her and humiliate her, and ultimately rape her repeatedly, but they’re all pleasantly surprised that the girl is a nymphomaniac and enjoys the gang bang. Meanwhile, Nick is reinstated and given his next task: Hunt and rescue the boss’s daughter, kill her kidnappers, and bring her back to safety. When he makes his way to her, he has little trouble dispatching the enforcers, but he’s told to “sit” on the girl for awhile, keeping her safe. What happens next is he crosses the line and makes love to her (because she basically requires constant sex), and then he’s double crossed by corrupt cops who’re working within the mob to do whatever they’re told to do. But Nick is a seasoned pro and has it all figured out.
From Fernando Di Leo, the hardboiled mob thriller The Boss completes his unofficial mob trilogy that began with Caliber 9 and continued on with The Italian Connection. All three are solid cold-blooded thrillers, and Silva maintained his cool, stone hearted persona with this one. He never cracks a smile or has a bit of levity; he’s always on the warpath, and even when he’s making love, he’s a killer. Di Leo certainly knew the genre well.
Raro Video and Kino Lorber recently released a Blu-ray edition of The Boss, and it comes in a sharp high definition transfer, and comes with a bonus audio commentary by a film historian, as well as an archival documentary, and comes in two audio tracks: English and Italian, as well as some trailers.
