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They Call Me Jeeg Robot

Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot

2015

Gabriele Mainetti

Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Stefano Ambrogi, Maurizio Tesei ...

5.8

1,944

Thriller. Drama. Fantasy The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Italy finally gets its own superhero, and the results are surprisingly gritty and thoroughly enjoyable."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Comfortable with sleaze but a far cry from being Italy's answer to 'Deadpool', the pic isn't funny or daring enough"	NEU
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"Mainetti’s direction has a crisp pulp sensibility, and a way with action."	POS

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