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“What are we coming to when they let common criminals
join the police?” Ruggero Deodato will perhaps forever be inextricably
linked to his notorious grand guignol video nasty Cannibal Holocaust,
but the famous Italian director tried his hands at numerous genres. He dabbled
in gialli with the likes of The Washing Machine, for instance, albeit in
the 1990s long after the movement's heyday in the 1970s. Indeed, three genres
ruled supreme at the Italian box office – the aforementioned gialli (bloody
murder mysteries), sex comedies, and crime films (generally referred to
as poliziotteschi), and it is in this latter category that Deodato produced
one of his finest films. Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (what a
fantastic title!) is an ultra-charged poliziottescho that knows no bounds
of shame, as tough-as-nails coppers take on the dangerous world of crime...
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