Product: French Connection [VHS] (1971)
Rating: 5.0
WEST - EAST CRIME GAME
Here's the game: if you have nothing better to do, rate the chase scene in this movie with the one in "Bullitt". Hackman won a well deserved Oscar in his role as Popeye Doyle, a maverick cop who is highly adept at bringing in "small-timers" but never the "big fish'. Enter a solid tip that Rey is smuggling in a huge amount of drugs from Marseilles, worth millions of dollars on the streets. Doyle springs into action, against the better judgement of his boss and some fellow officers. One memorable scene after another ensues: the showdown with Rey at Grand Central,the incredible chase scene in Brooklyn, the car stripdown, and the final shootout/recovery of drugs and money along with yet another death of a fellow officer;this time it's his harshest critic. Incredibly, Rey escapes, only to reappear 4 years later in France. Incredible also is that this is a Christmas holiday movie, as the opening shots show. Never seen this movie? Why?