Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.
Super Fuzz is a lighthearted Italian-American co-production that blends superhero comedy with buddy-cop antics in a distinctly cheesy 1980s way. The plot is functional but thin and largely exists as a vehicle for slapstick set pieces. Acting is broadly comic and hammy, with Terence Hill doing his familiar charming-rogue routine and Ernest Borgnine providing gruff comic relief — enjoyable but not distinguished. Cinematography is routine for the era and budget, serviceable but unremarkable. Novelty gets a modest bump for its quirky cross-genre mashup of Italian Western sensibility with American superhero comedy, a combination that feels genuinely idiosyncratic even if the execution is uneven. The ending wraps things up predictably without much payoff, consistent with the film's overall lightweight ambitions.