Planning to transform the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas, Samurai , gangster that unites with a group of mob bosses to complete the mission. But one, they turn it into a battlefield with the police.
A sprawl of beautifully cast characters -- a weasly pimp (Germano) here, a junkie moll (Scarano) there -- and their many intersections are deftly juggled, thanks to Patrizio Morane's darting cuts.
Evoking the spirit of 1970s crime maestro Fernando Di Leo, Sollima's sense of pace and place is impeccable, while the performances seethe with decadence, danger and despair.