The FBI sends a loner (Charles Bronson) to kidnap a mobster's (Rod Steiger) mistress (Jill Ireland) in Switzerland, and get her to testify against Steiger.
Unfairly seen as a lesser Bronson film, Love and Bullets is a fun, action-chase movie with plenty of snow and shootouts. I guess it's tendency for comedy/parody ( mainly in the characters of Jill Ireland and Rod Steiger) is what offsets people and that it isn't grim and violent as his earlier and well-known fare, but I found this film quite enjoyable, at least for the OTT performances of the stuttering Rod Steiger and Jill Ireland. Bronson is his usual reliable self, a little older but still capable of kicking ass. It's nice to have variety in a Bronson pic, opposed to the same old dark underbelly of grimness (the street fighter, Death Wish, and the Mechanic), and the chemistry between Bronson and Ireland is an added joy.
Unfairly seen as a lesser Bronson film, Love and Bullets is a fun, action-chase movie with plenty of snow and shootouts. I guess it's tendency for comedy/parody ( mainly in the characters of Jill Ireland and Rod Steiger) is what offsets people and that it isn't grim and violent as his earlier and well-known fare, but I found this film quite enjoyable, at least for the OTT performances of the stuttering Rod Steiger and Jill Ireland. Bronson is his usual reliable self, a little older but still capable of kicking ass. It's nice to have variety in a Bronson pic, opposed to the same old dark underbelly of grimness (the street fighter, Death Wish, and the Mechanic), and the chemistry between Bronson and Ireland is an added joy.