I like this one-always have enjoyed this 'Bullitt'/'French Connection' style genre. You know-early '70's, big boat cars, big flashy car-chase, grainy washed out film-stock look, on-site filming, kinda slow, guys like Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bionca turn up, heavy on the police procedure stuff, etc. Kojak prob. was the nearest TV got to pulling it off in other words.
This isn't anything special by itself, sure-slowish, confusing at times first half-hour, and you feel like you've seen it before if you've watched 'FR' or 'Bullitt'. This is one of those 'fine for it's era/good for what it is' movies, and if you are a fan, you will like it.
I enjoy the car-chase a lot, the ending w/ Roy's car doing the Jayne Mansefield is abrupt and jarring, the shoot-out in that junky railyard(?) def. something you don't see in today's CGI/greenscreen environment. There's just something about the authenticity of these 35 year old movies that you miss-today's are more graphic but this rings more true because you know what you are seeing is 'real'. Richard Lynch really Did run thru that puddle behind the tracks, etc. for example.
Look out for a familiar face from 'Dallas' by the way-Ken Kercheval. Never knew he was in this one....
*** outta **** or so, pretty good.
This isn't anything special by itself, sure-slowish, confusing at times first half-hour, and you feel like you've seen it before if you've watched 'FR' or 'Bullitt'. This is one of those 'fine for it's era/good for what it is' movies, and if you are a fan, you will like it.
I enjoy the car-chase a lot, the ending w/ Roy's car doing the Jayne Mansefield is abrupt and jarring, the shoot-out in that junky railyard(?) def. something you don't see in today's CGI/greenscreen environment. There's just something about the authenticity of these 35 year old movies that you miss-today's are more graphic but this rings more true because you know what you are seeing is 'real'. Richard Lynch really Did run thru that puddle behind the tracks, etc. for example.
Look out for a familiar face from 'Dallas' by the way-Ken Kercheval. Never knew he was in this one....
*** outta **** or so, pretty good.