JasparLamarCrabb Ezio Castellari's crime thriller hits the ground running & rarely lets up. David Hemmings is an Interpol agent tracking the clandestine activities of a lot of drug pushers, users, and well...just about anyone else in on the drug scene in Rome circa 1977. It's ridiculous, hopelessly convoluted but always entertaining. Castellari is a master at this type of film and he's in top form. Hemmings is a tad too tightly wound but he has great chemistry with Fabio Testi, ideally cast as a deep undercover cop. The sometimes intrusive pop-synth score by frequent Argento collaborator Goblin could have been toned down but it's a minor flaw in this classic. Sherry Buchanan plays a junkie. The dynamite cinematography is by Giovanni Bergamini.

random330 Poliziotteschi is a category of film that will rarely if ever let you down. This particular Poliziotteschi or Euro crime is yet another brilliant work of Enzo Castellari's, one of the key players in this genre. This movie is a classic, very entertaining, packed with action, a strong plot and Fabio Testi to top it all off! Ignore any mediocre reviews, this movie is phenomenal. A must see especially for fans of euro crime. In this movie Fabio Testi plays an officer who goes deep cover in the heroin game to try and take out the big boys of the operation. Only one cop is aware of the undercover op, so this movie is basically Testi vs. the world with one cop on his side. The action in this movie continues from beginning to end and the question is continually asked, who is more of a threat to Fabio, the heroin dealers he is trying to bust or his fellow police officers who believe him to be another drug dealing son of a bitch?!

bensonmum2 I finally got the chance to see The Heroin Busters and while I thought it was good, I didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Maybe it's another of the cases where I built up a movie to much before I saw it because it wasn't the film I had been anticipating. The Heroin Busters gets off to a good start with a opening credit sequence featuring a montage of scenes highlighting drug trafficking in Hong Kong, Columbia, and Rome set to some nice 80s action-style music. The action sequences in The Heroin Busters are good, but the promised motorcycle and airplane chase big finale wasn't all that I had been led to believe it would be. It's good, but it ran a little too long for me. The action sequence immediately preceding the supposed big finish where Fabio Testi is being chased through the construction site is easily one of my favorite moments in the film. On the acting side, both Testi and David Hemmings are fine in their roles and I especially enjoyed the few scenes they had together. "Few" being the key word as I would have liked more shared screen time between the two. Finally, I never really bought the notion of Testi as a drug dealer. I knew something was up as soon as he came on screen.

mariorakocevic Politically and Objective, Subjective viewed this film is a kind of insult for every drug consumer (and i mean every drug: illegal and legal)and suits actually well the political"comedy" concerning this theme. Castellari shows here a strong stereotype world of the "drugscene" that i cannot associate with the word intelligence especially with such a theme(though funny it is). Here we have the "typical" junkie whos halfcrazy coz he doesnt get his "medicine", and the tough b*****d dealer who beats the s*** out of everybody when it comes to money. it gets then "socio-critical" when the police says how many poor people die due the use of (illegal)drugs (fine that its unimportant how many die due excessive alcohol consume-especially when the state gets money for it) Naturally if you dont take it seriously this film is quite entertaining: fabio testi here who plays a cop who goes undercover in the drug scene, wears most of the film a cap and some priceless wildleather boots(!) The (psychedelic)music from goblin is great, and is a perfect start for the film Needless to say that some decent action is also included here. Patrizia Webley the sleazy blonde, has here a short cameo as one of the lesbian customers of sherry buchanan -who gets her money for the drugs by selling her body. Yes, its a "mondo candido"!..