Street Law is a 1970's Italian "Eurocrime" film starring Franco Nero and Barbara Bach. Eurocrime films have often been classified as little more than Italian Death Wish clones, but this is an unfair dismissal. While its true that the success of films like Dirty Harry and Death Wish was at the heart of the mentality behind these low-budget, European crime films, directors like Enzo G.
This isn’t a half-bad little crime flick, but I’ll take Castellari’s post-apocalyptic stuff over his eurocrime any day. It’s got plenty of kick-ass action, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not as flat-out brutal as some of, say Fulci’s eurocrime stuff, even if the “plot” is, ultimately, just as threadbare.
And I should add — while the “struggling with one’s conscience in the wake of pursuing and/or getting revenge” certainly sets this flick apart from the likes of “Dirty Harry” and “Death Wish,” it was pretty much swiped completely from Jack Hill’s “Coffy,” which actually handled the same theme with a lot more subtlety.