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Tre Supermen in Santo Domingo
Three Supermen in Santo Domingo
Crash Boys
Italy 1986
produced by Italo Martinenghi for Barbatoja Film
directed by Italo Martinenghi
starring Daniel Stephen, Sal Borgese, Steven Martin (= Stefano Martinenghi), Gena Gas, Bitto Albertini, José Raphael, Juan Laces Grisolia, Anna Silvia Grullon, Margarita Gómez, Riccardo Rossi, Giulio Lupi
idea by Italo Martinenghi, screenplay by Bitto Albertini, Antonio Cesare Corti, music by Stelvio Cipriani
Three Supermen
review by Mike Haberfelner
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FBI agent Brad (Daniel Stephen) is told by his boss to investigate a
money forgery operation working out of Santo Domingo to flood the market
with fakes to destabilize the Dollar - and he insists on bringing
good-natured crooks Steve (Steven Martin) and Sal (Sal Borgese) along for
the job, as in their red and black bullet-proof costumes, they're known as
the Three Supermen. In Santo Domingo, they soon meet up with their
contact Diane (Gina Gas), who is to get them in touch with the forgers,
but the forgers have long gotten wise to the three Supermen and have put
up a nice trap for them, and take Diane captage. Of course the trap
doesn't spring, but Brad is soon in a bind with the American ambassador
while Steve and Sal do some sleuthing to find out the mansion the
moneymaking machine is situated in. Eventually, all three Supermen storm
the mansion, actually get to the machine, and remove its heart - but
somehow Brad gets captured in the process. Steve and Sal celebrate having
the machine's heart by hiring two prostitutes, but they're secret agents
for the baddies and knock out our heroes and steal what they believe to be
the heart - only to be whipped silly back home becauise Steve and Sal
tricked them. Steve and Sal free Brad, and the three get a squad of pretty
girls to sneak on board the baddies ship in drag to steal the rest of the
moneymaking machine - successfully of course. But now the baddies hold
their girl squad hostage - but led by Diane, they pretty much free
themselves before the Supermen can even intervene ... Three
Supermen in Santo Domingo, last of eight Three Supermen
movies, above all shows how out of time the concept has fallen over the
years. While the original The
Three Fantastic Supermen from 19 years earlier was more or less a
spoof of the then current Eurospy genre as a whole, with a few hints from
the then current Batman
TV-show thrown in, neither were much of a thing in the 1980s anymore, and
sperheroes as such were pretty much box office poison back then. Also,
Italian action comedies as a whole had pretty much run their course in
1986, and the rather second rate action direction in this movie wasn't
really in any position to revive the genre. With that in mind, but even
with that not in mind, this movie is a bit of a mess, a slapstick
superhero crime comedy with a story too simplistic to raise even an
eyebrow, with story elements, costumes, and props (just look at the
moneymaking machine) seeming nothing if not old-fashioned in the 1980s,
and a cast that's not exactly first rate (only Sal Borgese's performance
as mute Sal actually leaves some of an impression). It's amusing still
mind you, just for all the wrong aspects.
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