A better than average Italian crime thriller for two reasons: firstly the story happens during one day, which creates dramatic tension, and secondly there aren't too many characters to follow.
Also the motivations for the protagonists are carefully construed from social and psychological issues such as poverty and masculinity.
Apart from all this the film still delivers on the level usually expected from Italian seventies genre films: lots of unnecessary violence, often sexual, and nudity too.
Two violent rapists taking people hostage in a restaurant and dealing with the cops outside