MANHUNT IN THE CITY - not to be confused with another Italian crime film sometimes called MANHUNT and also starring Henry Silva in support - is a 1975 violent crime film directed by the inimitable Umberto Lenzi and starring Silva who goes on a ruthless revenge spree as he hunts down the gang members who shot and killed his little girl during a heist portrayed at the film's opening.
This film is very much in the mould of Lenzi's popular crime movies starring Maurizio Merli although it's not quite top-tier material. The impassive Silva ends up encountering all manner of low lives and bad guys but the futility of his vengeance is made more than apparent in the movie's downbeat scripting. Most of the time he seems to have stuff done to him rather than doing stuff to the bad guys. There's plentiful action here and a fast pace to boot, making this an effortless watch as always for the genre, but MANHUNT IN THE CITY lacks a little of the depth and the drama to make it one of the best of its type. It's perfectly watchable, just quite ordinary as these polizia movies go.
This film is very much in the mould of Lenzi's popular crime movies starring Maurizio Merli although it's not quite top-tier material. The impassive Silva ends up encountering all manner of low lives and bad guys but the futility of his vengeance is made more than apparent in the movie's downbeat scripting. Most of the time he seems to have stuff done to him rather than doing stuff to the bad guys. There's plentiful action here and a fast pace to boot, making this an effortless watch as always for the genre, but MANHUNT IN THE CITY lacks a little of the depth and the drama to make it one of the best of its type. It's perfectly watchable, just quite ordinary as these polizia movies go.