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...action, who do him in. There are plenty of spectacular thrills in the sequence, but it remains always in scale, an extension of the realistic tone that has distinguished the earlier portions of the film. Even the sniper's prowess is explicable. He is, himself, a onetime cop. His psychopathic rage has turned against his former colleagues for reasons that make gruesome psychological sense...
...Patient Cop. One likes the movie for refusing to be yet another example of the paranoia and the senselessness of the times in which we live. It is as patient as Martin Beck (well played by Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) in linking the final mass violence to the brutal, suspensefully executed murder with which the film begins. It is full of lightly sketched details that give Beck, his team of detectives, the whole cop milieu weight and depth almost subliminally, in the manner of a good novel. More than that the picture is familiar and knowing about its setting, Stockholm. Finally...
...SIDES are far apart on money, they are even more sharply divided on the issue of organizational change within the department. When Gorski came to Harvard in January, 1975, he immediately started to reshape the police department in his own image--that of a tough new "scientific cop." He instituted a new computer system to analyze crime statistics, sent members of the force to a police academy to bone up on the latest crime-fighting techniques, and hired a number of plainclothes "special agents" to investigate campus crime. At the same time, Gorski began an efficiency drive to complement...
Such pyrotechnics fizzle as often as they go off, but Berger gets steady comic mileage out of built-in absurdities. Since the detective is clearly the butt of a massive finagle, nothing he meets is what it seems to be. An apparently moronic cop nabs Wren with an abrupt display of erudition: "Did you cause that man to shuffle off his mortal coil?" In the twinkling of a transition, innocent young schoolgirls become a team of orgiastic courtesans. Even when Wren finally tracks down the villain who has been tormenting him, his deduction #151;based on impeccable evidence-is wrong...
...description, Raymond Chandler's sketch of a private eye is irresistible-the urban gunslinger with all the smarts. It makes a powerful myth. No matter how many Sunday-supplement articles report that a private detective is probably an ex-cop who guards industrial secrets, some romance still clings to him. Nicholas Pileggi, a New York-based investigative reporter, has written a book about one authentic private eye. It is a painstaking job, which makes it pleasant to report that while this trim detective has little chance to crack wise with classy dames, there are a few traces...