Two Supercops (3 Stars)

This Italian film, made in 1977, has been released in English with different titles over the years. The most recent release on DVD is called "Crime Busters", but I prefer "Two Supercops", which was its original title in the cinemas.

Terence and Bud are two casual labourers looking for work in a Miami dockyard. I shan't bother telling you the names of their characters, because honestly, who cares? Everyone knows them as Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, whatever films they appear in. They can't find work, so Terence suggests that they rob a building where he's seen money being delivered every day. When they burst in they find themselves surrounded by police. It's an administrative office for the Miami Police Department. To avoid being arrested, they say that they're visiting the building to apply for jobs as police officers.

Terence and Bud are given 20 weeks training before they go into action. Is that all? They're unorthodox, but successful. They succeed in bringing down a drug cartel operating at the dockyard where they first met one another.

The film is intended to be a comedy, but I didn't find it very funny. It's one of Terence and Bud's weaker films. The only scenes I enjoyed were the fights. I'm sure that Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst based their hilarious fighting style on them in the Hercules TV series. Apart from the fights, the film is dull.