Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
A likable but formulaic Italian action-comedy built around Bud Spencer's screen persona. The premise blends sports underdog tropes with military satire in a mildly distinctive Italian genre cocktail, earning modest novelty, but the plot is thin and predictable — ragtag misfits coached to beat the establishment is well-worn territory. Acting is broad and functional in the slapstick tradition, cinematography is workmanlike with nothing memorable, and the ending resolves exactly as expected. Enjoyable for fans of the genre but unremarkable by most cinematic measures.