Is that a garden hose on the cover? It must be a garden hose because I've never seen a gun that small. It must be the kind of gun Ian Fleming envisioned when James Bond was stripped of his Beretta and they replaced it by giving him a gun so small, he could conceal it in his cigarette case. Either way, the only things memorable about this movie are the cover, the fact that DeNiro is given top billing only as a post-Godfather 2 marketing tactic. Not that I remember, but considering that the film apparently went through three different title changes, the seventeen directors seemed to disagree over what the film was about and which character it was about. DeNiro shows up halfway through, unexplained. I don't remember any "swap", as one title promises, and i wouldn't be surprised if Sam was the name of the first protagonist who was inexplicably killed off before DeNiro stepped into frame. In other words, the cover of this movie is like an Easter egg, in a way. Pretty enough to ensure that you pick it up, but not very much to clue in as to whats inside the egg, and by the time you crack it open, you gave five dollars to be split up between seventeen different pseudonym-using Italian directors, this movie is another step closer to getting a real release, and the time you wasted on your treasure hunt in the 5 dollar movie section at Food Lion could have been saved if you were a grown up who was content with the fact that The Deer Hunter already exists and there is no Eldorado of Robert Deniro movies out there for you to discover and tell all your friends about. Just go buy the 87th anniversary of the Deer hunter and go home and eat the chocolate you've always loved. Happy belated Easter, everyone.
Review of Sam's Song
Sam's Song
(1969)
This is a movie featuring actors as well as Robert DeNiro and some actors.
20 April 2017