This is an Italian/British mafia-filled crimesploitation flick starring a bunch of people I'm not too familiar with. There are some cool elements to this film but unfortunately not enough to actually recommend this to anyone outside of hardcore Eurotrash completists. On the plus side you get some bloody mafia hits with lots of bullet holes and splatter. There's a great crime family that is sort of a mix of the Manson family and Ma Barker's gang led by a badass older lady named Mama The Turk. If these folks had been the main focus of the film it may have been an all time classic. They run over Mick Jagger-look-alikes, they kidnap pretty women and torture them with hippy ballads and are just generally a fun gang of nuts to watch. On the downside most of the movie focuses on this slick undercover cop guy who plays all the different crime factions against each other and I found his scenes really dull and a little confusing to boot. Also the title misleads us into thinking there will be a strong female Pam Grier-type character but there isn't. So while I wouldn't give this a strong endorsement I will say check it out if you have a lot of patience for a movie that makes you wait quite a while for the good stuff. AKA MAFIA JUNCTION and BLUE MOVIE BLACKMAIL
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