KnotMissPriceless
Why so much hype?
VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
borman-1
Operazione San Pietro is an OK eurocomedy. It's not one of Lucio Fulci's best comedies (his other movies featuring Lando Buzzanca - The Eroticist, Young Dracula - are funnier), but it's still watchable and entertaining. It's not a real ripoff of Dino Risi's film, as an other reviewer mentioned (though I haven't seen Operazione San Gennaro), since it was made (written, produced etc.) by the same people, and - as far as I know - the story and the characters are very different too (Fulci's film is not a real "heist" or "caper" movie). The Italian title implies that it's a sequel, and it does feature similar situations, but 1. that's not stealing in my opinion 2. it is very common in case of movies like this. It seems to be true that Operazione San Pietro is actually a "semi-sequel" to Heinz Rühmann's Father Brown movies, at least the German title (Die Abenteuer des Kardinal Braun) suggests that.The acting is OK (Robinson is quite good in a parody of his earlier roles), the characters are funny, the direction is stylish (though not as stylish as Fulci's giallos or westerns).The car stunts are similar to the ones in Louis de Funes' Gendarme movies, which is quite interesting, since the Funes movie which features almost the same stunts (Le Gendarme se marie) was released a year after Operazione San Pietro. (So if anybody is a "thief" among these people, it must be Jean Girault, the director of the Gendarme movies.) All in all, if you like European (italian) comedies, give this one a try. It's not a gory movie at all, but it's still a Fulci-film with Fulci's stylistics (and it's a lot better and stylish than some horrors he made in the eighties).(John Bartha appears uncredited as the "talkative" one of the thugs who beat up Robinson.)
haildevilman
WAS this a comedy? This played a late night cable channel recently. I saw it just because it had Lucio's name on it.Il Maestro manages to talk Edward G. "Rico" Robinson into making a cameo in this heist caper. I hope Robinson needed the paycheck bad enough.Four bumbling goofballs try to steal great art in Rome. Lead by a foppish type (despite his lack of cash) they cause one mishap after another.We have a sea captain wannabe, the 'hero', and one of the creepiest looking guys I've ever seen. Like Jay Leno with his head flattened vertically.It's a good thing I had several beers in me when I saw this. Otherwise, it might never have been watchable.Western Fulci fans won't dig it. It's not a horror flick. Euro fans might. He did do other genres. But was he serious here? I still can't tell.
p13r0
Just a copy of another movie, "Operazione San Gennaro", realized in hurry to try to repeat its success. The plot is substantially the same (it is simply shifted from Naples to Rome) but without the humour and the style of the first one. Many of the secondary characters are the same in both the movies.There is nothing particularly funny or smart in it, but for some strange reason this movie had more success outside Italy than the original, that is still broadcasted sometimes on the national television.
jan onderwater
Misshapen, obnoxious z-grade film about the stealing of the Michelangelo's Pietà in which both Heinz Rühmann and Edward G. Robinson somehow seem to have been mistakingly landed in; one indeed feels pity for them. Apparently this is a kind of sequel to the Father Brown (based on the stories by G.K. Chesterton) films with Rühmann; all those involved should have been excommunicated.
