The French Connection

Buy This Item The French Connection by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-14-2008     Two narcotics detectives, "Popeye" Doyle and his partner Buddy Russo (Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider), start to close in on a vast international narcotics ring when the smugglers unexpectedly strike back. Following an attempt on his life by one of the smuggl Reader Reviews Well, actually the Academy RARELY gets it right. This beat out Clockwork Orange in screenplay, film and director? Seriously? How can a film that's nothing but a mesh of other, vastly superior, films even remotely close to being worthy of any awards? Friedkin's never been anything special behind the camera, with tripe like the exorcist and to live and die in la on his resume, so it's no shock that the man can't even concoct an exciting chase scene. Even in terms of it's genre it's severely uneventful and just generally mind numbingly boring. Hackman does a great job, that is pretty much the only positive thing that can be said about the whole film, which is pretty sad. "Gritty" seriously? The French Connection isn't even worthy of picking the toes of Dirty Harry or Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

The French Connection Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-14-2008.

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