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...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...
...Bronson as a bare-knuckle fighter scrapping to stay alive in Depression America. It gave a good account of a man trapped in brutality by bitter circumstances, and Hill may well have had some thing equally deterministic in mind when he set out. to make this study of how cop and criminal mentalities begin to merge when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here we haven't the faintest idea what motivates these two men in modern-day America. Given O'Neal...
Mayor Frank Rizzo, who earned a tough-cop reputation as police commissioner in the 1960s, surrounded the house with officers wearing flak jackets and carrying automatic weapons. Fearful of feeding racial tensions or harming the children, city officials decided not to use force. Instead, they tried to starve MOVE into surrender. For 56 days, the police isolated the block with sawhorses, aimed a water cannon at the house and cut off its gas, water and electricity. Finally, in May, the siege ended. MOVE members reluctantly turned their weapons over to the police and promised to vacate the house within...
...Jones '69, helps Mars in her search and the two, fall in love rather suddenly and unexpectedly. The romance seems highly improbable and the love scenes are downright silly, as Dunaway always acts just a bit too shocked and desperate. Jones as the happy-go-lucky, rather moronic cop acts too juvenile, and is not at all believable. Jones played football at Harvard and I don't know how much acting he did, but he sure could use some acting lessons quick...
...caper he is entangled in, playing a detective, is about a group of antireligious fanatics who plan to assassinate the Pope during a visit to San Francisco. Hawn becomes the unwitting recipient of information about their plot when she gives a lift to an undercover cop. As the conventions of this sort of movie demand, Hawn has a hard time getting anyone to believe that 1) she is in danger and 2) something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action...