Lucio Fulci [opts] to spoon out his usual specialty: wholesale carnage […]. Weak stomachs beware. Started life under the title Vicious and was filmed as Mean Blood before eventually settling on Luca il Contrabbandiere (Luca the Smuggler). Distributed overseas as The Smuggler and The Naples Connection. — Bruce Holecheck

 There is the expected abundance of bushy mustaches, and some guy that gets grabbed while eating spaghetti and takes the plate along to jail […]. Is it any good? A bloody mess […]. Its disparate elements nicely counterpointed each other, nothing mingles here. You have drab locations, generic gangster types and sickening, extreme, woefully infrequent displays of violence… all set against some stupid social commentary about how Italian criminals are decent folks who say no to drugs, boring boat chases, a very inappropriate score and a plodding storyline full of silly turns. — Miguel Sancho