Review by Beatrice On 23-Jun-2023
A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of circumstances
Enzo Ceccotti, runs, or rather escapes from the police who are chasing him.
In order not to be found, he goes down to the Tiber embankment and is forced to dive into the water.
He comes out covered with a black, toxic, radioactive liquid.
He is a delinquent Enzo, misanthropic, rough and antisocial; "people disgust him" he has only criminal "friends" and among them the father of Alessia (an Ilenia Pastorelli, perfect heir to Ramazzotti), a young woman-child forced by "harassing" circumstances to take refuge in childhood and comic books.
While Enzo discovers that he has acquired superhuman strength with which he detaches a radiator and reduces it to an accordion and does not hesitate to break into an ATM, the young Alessia, left alone, becomes a constant presence in his life.
She is convinced that Enzo is the hero of her comic books, namely Hiroshi Jeeg Robot, and overwhelms him with naive affection. But the pseudo-hero of Tor Bella Monaca has to clash with the "crime novel" that is Rome and with the figure of the cruel Zingaro who has entered into a deal with the Neapolitan "gomorra."
Amid petty thieves killed with white iPhones, while the order was to steal them black, and those mauled by pittbulls, Enzo continues to try to make ends meet by putting his impressive new strength to the test.
He will become with endless views the most followed hooded criminal on social networks, while he continues to feed on yogurt and pornography with which he falls asleep.
But Alessia creeps into his life to the point where he follows the hero of the famous Japanese cartoon, that very Jeeg steel robot: "if the day of darkness comes, a slaughter happens that is a slaughter."
Then it will be the suburban Ariadne-Alessia who will deliver the thread to Enzo-Teseo to dominate the evil-Minotaur of the legendary labyrinth.
Meanwhile, the ambiguous Gypsy who wants to become the leader of the criminals has some narcissistic weaknesses, loves to perform and sings about "no longer seeing reality, nor seeing where it stands," and between Oxa and Bertè reminds us that "she is not a lady, one with all the stars in her life, one for whom the war is never over..."
Unforgettable performances those of the Gypsy, so Joker, so crazy, crazy-omo-transgender, so sketchy that he wanted to blow up the Olympic stadium during the Rome-Lazio derby to make the state finally understand who is in charge.
A post-Big Brother or Good Sunday delirium, where gypsy-turned-transgender Luca Marinelli makes a sublime parody of himself in "Don't Be Evil."
But here the stakes are between the Roman and Neapolitan novels: who wins?
Nunzia Lo Cosimo, head of the Campania organization is taken down with the sound of Nada's "I'll squeeze you, I swear I'll hurt you" while in the South Curve the pseudo suburban Hiroshi tries to save the fans from the Gypsy's time bomb that people really hate.
But Enzo-Jeeg is now a superhero and was apparently from MAGIC....
But then who will win the game? Gomorrah, Criminal Rome or the Beyond Man of Steel?
You will see who will win...and it will be incredible.
Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes, dark heroes and sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
A sweeping, overflowing, dark and surprisingly funny urban fable that plucks, sifts and seasons with ingredients of high artistic cuisine the cleverest and most consumed genres by the general public.
A film that reconciles the creativity of Italian cinema, eclectic, fractious, restless, irreverent, intrusive, incisive, edgy, ironic, welcoming, sarcastic, violent and deeply heroic.
Unforgettably new, it seems to rise from the ashes of annoying and exclusively commercial banality.
A film that can be addictive, beware of side effects.
A film for everyone and no one. AMEN
23-Jun-2023 by Beatrice