Certificate: 15
Running time: 87 mins
Director: Italo
Martinenghi
Starring: Daniel
Stephen, Salvatore Borghese, Stefano Martinenghi
Genre: Action, Comedy,
Sci-Fi, Superhero
Country: Italy

Two years ago this month we reviewed an earlier offering 3 Supermen Against Godfather and were in
awe of its infinite awesomeness. The
same, sadly, can’t be said of 3
Supermen in Santo Domingo . The first issue (and this one might seem
childish but not to us) is for large portions of the movie there’s actually only two Supermen
as Captain Brad (Daniel Stephen) is off doing random FBI business, or getting
himself pulled over by beat-cops, or getting involved in late night fights in
the park…or just about anything else that doesn’t involve spandex and a
cape. All the other issues can be boiled
down to one thing…scale. 3 Supermen in Santo Domingo comes nineteen years after
the original 3 Supermen (aka The Fantastic Three) and since then the
other European production companies involved in the movies have dropped out
leaving only Italian money and Italo Martinenghi caring about the goings
on. The cast has changed, crew too (no
doubt) and where once there was quality, ingenuity and fun all that appears to
be left is a sad desperation to repair something that’s gone beyond.
3 Supermen Against Godfather and for that matter 3 Supermen in the Wild West (think Superman meets Back to the
Future Part III) were packed with heart pounding feats of bravery, nerve
and comedy. The fight sequences on top
of picturesque Turkish ruins (in Godfather)
gave the film something that was unobtainable on its budget. The grandness of these set pieces were
breathtaking. Almost every fight, chase,
etc in Santo Domingo takes place in some sort of park (natural and industrial). It serves to shrink the movie down until it
is no bigger than its budgetary restraints.
Add to that some fundamental narrative issues, a general sense of
logic ambiguity & confusion and not even the Supermen’s Three Stooges style slapstick humour can
save the world.

3 Supermen in Santo Domingo would be a two star movie, as it’s not terrible or unwatchable in the way that those in the one star club are but for
there's a one star reduction here due to our heroes being a group of stealing fuckers.
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