This one will leave a taste in your mouth like Guiseppe Castellano had stuffed his y-fronts in there after a hard days filming in Africa. If he even was in Africa, because I've since discovered that a lot of the footage in this film comes from an earlier Siciliano film called Congo Hell. That fink!
Young Rudy is down on his luck. Some mobsters are into him for some cash and giving him a hard time, so he does what every young man would do - he goes to some war torn country in Africa where his brother is a violent evil mercenary to tap him up for some cash. His brother, who has a German accent compared to Rudy's American one, hates his guts and tells him to bolt, but then a bunch of rebels turn up and kill everyone except for Rudy's brother, whom they pile off to some undisclosed location.
This leaves Rudy with a bunch of unlikeable, murderous, rape-happy bXstard mercenaries who fight each other for leadership but do agree that they need to go and get the captured Colonel, and reluctantly also agree to take Rudy along. Rudy's not quite going to find out his brother's welfare - he's more interested in some diamonds the man has on his person.
Thus begins a journey where no one is skinned alive, but plenty of people are gunned down, tortured, beaten to death or burned alive. You'll hate every single white guy in this film and basically wait about just to see them die horribly, which makes the ending a bit of a bitter pill swallow to be honest. A lack of gore makes you kind of wonder why they made it so sleazy in the first place, but there's plenty of action so the film is rarely dull. It sure is racist though.
I'm going to have to watch all of Congo Hell now and find out if most of the footage was nicked from there, and Guiseppe Castellano was just rolling about with a gun in someone's back garden.
