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DanTheMan 2 Saturday matinee serials, Italian style. Goofy exuberance seasoned with some traditional spaghetti western violence, Starblack displays a certain nostalgia for the Zorro or Lone Ranger masked hero, who always appears at the perfect moment to right wrongs. It's a frankly bizarre concoction of violent and tongue-in-cheek parody elements, even featuring an elongated sequence of the titular hero singing his own theme song. Essentially, the film consists of a series of escalating episodes in which Starblack escapes a trap laid for him. This, in turn, leads to an even more elaborate trap and an even more unlikely escape, in a typical comic strip or serial style. The direction by Giovanni Grimaldi is pretty competent, even if it does feel a bit standard, while his action sequences are very well executed, lively and eventful. At times, the violence in Starblack rivals that of the cruellest spaghetti western as he goes around killing more people in 90 minutes than the Lone Ranger did in his entire career. The scene in which the masked avenger saves a woman from being raped and then offers her a gun so that she can take revenge, remains one of the most unsettling moments of the entire genre. Backed by a decent cast and a wonderfully moody but horrifically cheesy score by Benedetto Ghiglia, Starblack feels like it should be a cult favourite; however average it may be, it's also phenomenal entertainment. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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