1977 · axe · late · martino
Mannaja
Directed by Sergio Martino1h 36m1977
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
Our read: Mannaja (1977) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive axe · late · martino entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme axe / late, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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