Product: French Connection [VHS] (1971)
Rating: 2.0
A thoroughly dated movie
Man, what a bore. I watched it because of all the accolades this movie has received over the years. Maybe it was good years ago, but this movie has not aged well at all. I mean, cmon, the whole premise is around $500,000 worth of heroin. Please. Even in today's dollars, that's a joke. The movie spends 10 minutes watching the cops rip the car apart trying to find where the drugs are stashed. Today, drug traffickers rent 26 foot Ryder trucks to move the stuff around. The vaunted chase scene was ok, but again, it's nothing special compared to what's done today.Essentially, almost the entire movie consists of watching a couple unlikeable cops tail bad guys for over an hour. Yawn.