{"id":3375,"date":"2013-01-21T21:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2013-01-21T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:18:34","slug":"the-sicilian-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/the-sicilian-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sicilian Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3390\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicilian-connection.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3390 \" title=\"sicilian-connection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicilian-connection.jpg\" alt=\"The Sicilian Connection\" width=\"348\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicilian-connection.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicilian-connection-133x88.jpg 133w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sicilian-connection-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sicilian Connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Sicilian Connection<\/strong> is a rather peculiar poliziotteschi from Ferdinando Baldi, a director I more commonly associate with action films (westerns, peplums etc). It&#8217;s an odd mix of revenge thriller and Rosi style expose of the international smuggling trade, with the plot following Joe Coppola (Ben Gazzara) as he tries to make a mint by buying a shed-load of opium and smuggling it into New York. His travels take him to Turkey &#8211; where he witnesses opium being harvested in Afyon &#8211; to Palermo, where it&#8217;s processed into top quality heroin by the Mafia. Eventually he returns to America, but he&#8217;s forgotten to account for the fact that it&#8217;s a criminal business populated by people who are far from trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s entertaining and has some great moments, but it&#8217;s very inconsistent &#8211; each segment has an almost entirely different cast and theme &#8211; and it feels like it was intended as a very different kind of film to how it ended up. But there&#8217;s a good cast, the script is decently constructed and it&#8217;s a little different to the norm. Not brilliant, but not bad either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sicilian Connection is a rather peculiar poliziotteschi from Ferdinando Baldi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1074,633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}