La Scorta

Winner Of Five Italian Oscars
Including Best Director - Ricky Tognazzi


Sicily, 1992: When a high-profile judge and his bodyguard
are brutally murdered, four reluctant young cops are
assigned as 'La Scorta' - Italian for 'the escorts' - to
protect the replacement prosecutor from Mafia assassins.
But in a country where high level corruption and sudden
violence are a way of life, the squad quickly find themselves
outnumbered, outgunned and desperately out of time. Even if
they can survive the daily threat of car bombs and ambushes,
will personal conflicts and backroom betrayals blow apart the
nation's most unlikely team of heroes?

Claudio Amendola (in his breakout performance) and Enrico Lo Verso star in this white-knuckle thriller from writer/director Ricky Tognazzi featuring a pounding score by Ennio Morricone and based on a true story of uncommon courage.


WOW

This one was a gritty sort of
"damned if you do, damned if you dont" type of movie.
Even the good guys were bad guys. But thats politics no?

The scenery of this movie was great. Lots of driving through twisty, turny, narrow roads. Some really cool aerial views of the route the bodyguards negotiated through the city. Movies like this make me wonder what the point of the justice systems really is. Because according to this movie, it has very little to do with the law.

AND the main guy kept remindingme of Tony Danza, which was kinda cool.