They Call Me Jeeg
(2016)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 2,604 votes
Year: 2016
Runtime: 117 мин
Country: Italy
Director: Gabriele Mainetti
Cast: Клаудио Сантамария, Лука Маринелли, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi, Maurizio Tesei, Daniele Trombetti, Francesco Formichetti, Joel Sy, Сальваторе Эспозито, Gianluca Di Gennaro
Plot
Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg.
The film is a strange, anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 1980s called Steel Jeeg. Here, young outlaw Enzo is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world significantly. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch.