在这部Operazione Kappa: sparate a vista惊悚片中,A better than average Italian crime thriller for two reasons: firstly the story happens during one day, which creates dramatic tension, and secondly there aren't too many characters to follow. Also the motivations for the protagonists are carefully construed from social and psychological issues such as poverty and masculinity. Apart from all this the film still delivers on the level usually expected from Italian seventies genre films: lots of unnecessary violence, often sexual, and nudity too. Recommended for fans of the genre. Released on video in Finland in the early eighties.
In Rome Arbelli, who made occasional friendship with the commoner Paolo, tells him that he was unable to own Anna, his girlfriend. Having gone to her apartment after a party, the two young men rape her and kill a woman who was trying to help her. Chased by the police, the two kidnap around fifteen customers in a restaurant attached to the Hotel Continental; then they blackmail Commissioner Aldovrandi, who rushed and besieged the building, asking for a billion in gold bars, a car and a plane to escape. The official, while asking for time until dawn of the following day, prepares a marksman chosen in a suitable place. In the hours that follow, Paolo is moved by the sensible words of a single woman; but Arbelli becomes increasingly fierce.