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...continually recycles its waste products. Names and faces may change; trends like this season's candor may throw a new light on things; but the basic material is shredded, pulped and reprocessed from year to year, reappearing each fall in soothingly familiar formats. Situation comedies, variety hours, cop-and-cowboy capers-the individual products may soon be discarded, but the molds are never broken...
...said it was a cop...
...sense if I made the film, it would be a cop-out and I do think it's still unclear whether you think McKay's actions justified...
Director Fleischer and Scenarist Silliphant are clearly interested in pulling off a neat surprise. What they sacrifice for the sake of a dramatic punch is any adequate depth or understanding of the loneliness, aimlessness and deadend desperation that might drive such a man as Kilvinsky, portrayed as a good cop and a decent human being. Like The New Centurions itself, the scene is efficient, proficient, even exciting, but so glib it finally becomes false...
...police pro, Stefan Gierasch as an indignant slum landlord, and the ravishing Rosalind Cash as Keach's black girl friend are especially memorable. Jane Alexander portrays Keach's wife, however, as if she were a prune intended for medicinal use only, and Scott Wilson's rookie cop is totally consumed by actor's hysteria...