Product: French Connection [VHS] (1971)
Rating: 3.0
The French Connection
Maybe the years just didn't do this movie justice, but I did not think this 1971 oscar winner was anything extroidanary. It was a well acted, well directed cop drama with some good action scenes. Gene Hackman is defined by his role in this movie. His character reminds me of Tony Soprano, except on the other end of the law. After playing Mafia for a couple weeks, I think that the game designers who made Mafia must have been watching a lot of this movie, because there are too many similarities to be a coincidence, not in story, but in setting and in some of the action sequences.Overall, this was a decent movie, but I was not impressed at all by the ending, which may be why I'm giving it a low score now. It dragged on some times when it should have just moved on to the next scene. Good movie to watch after a lazy sunday dinner.