Operazione San Pietro is an OK eurocomedy. It's not one of Lucio Fulci's best comedies (his other movies featuring Lando Buzzanca - The Eroticist, Young Dracula - are funnier), but it's still watchable and entertaining. It's not a real ripoff of Dino Risi's film, as an other reviewer mentioned (though I haven't seen Operazione San Gennaro), since it was made (written, produced etc.) by the same people, and - as far as I know - the story and the characters are very different too (Fulci's film is not a real "heist" or "caper" movie). The Italian title implies that it's a sequel, and it does feature similar situations, but 1. that's not stealing in my opinion 2. it is very common in case of movies like this. It seems to be true that Operazione San Pietro is actually a "semi-sequel" to Heinz Rühmann's Father Brown movies, at least the German title (Die Abenteuer des Kardinal Braun) suggests that.
The acting is OK (Robinson is quite good in a parody of his earlier roles), the characters are funny, the direction is stylish (though not as stylish as Fulci's giallos or westerns).
The car stunts are similar to the ones in Louis de Funes' Gendarme movies, which is quite interesting, since the Funes movie which features almost the same stunts (Le Gendarme se marie) was released a year after Operazione San Pietro. (So if anybody is a "thief" among these people, it must be Jean Girault, the director of the Gendarme movies.) All in all, if you like European (italian) comedies, give this one a try. It's not a gory movie at all, but it's still a Fulci-film with Fulci's stylistics (and it's a lot better and stylish than some horrors he made in the eighties).
(John Bartha appears uncredited as the "talkative" one of the thugs who beat up Robinson.)
The acting is OK (Robinson is quite good in a parody of his earlier roles), the characters are funny, the direction is stylish (though not as stylish as Fulci's giallos or westerns).
The car stunts are similar to the ones in Louis de Funes' Gendarme movies, which is quite interesting, since the Funes movie which features almost the same stunts (Le Gendarme se marie) was released a year after Operazione San Pietro. (So if anybody is a "thief" among these people, it must be Jean Girault, the director of the Gendarme movies.) All in all, if you like European (italian) comedies, give this one a try. It's not a gory movie at all, but it's still a Fulci-film with Fulci's stylistics (and it's a lot better and stylish than some horrors he made in the eighties).
(John Bartha appears uncredited as the "talkative" one of the thugs who beat up Robinson.)