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George Oldfield who led this enquiry and his colleagues earned our admiration, praise and respects for the work they performed and the enormous efforts made by them whilst attempting to identify Peter Sutcliffe, and to apprehend him. Sadly, an old friend of Sutcliffe's knew it was him but kept quiet and said nothing for years, another person residing in Sunderland derailed this enquiry by writing hoax letters he sent to the Police pretending to be the Yorkshire Ripper. The person they were looking was evil, a fame seeker no different to the other copycat killers who killed President Kennedy, John Lennon and David Richard Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer in New York.

*The Richter scale is: A measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed in 1935 by Charles Francis Richter, the highest figure recorded was 8.6 in 1960, the Chile Earthquake, this film scores 9, meaning severe destruction and loss of life in 2-hours by one very determined guy Frank Vincent, who deserves an Oscar for playing the part of an ageing hit-man. Question answered: "What is a Chicago overcoat", it is a coffin and a lousy title for a great-great film whose subject matter is a glimpse into the life of an aged gangster who presumably survived the Al Capone and Frank Nitti period in Chicago and still on the go, an elderly hit man who carry's out hits on people we know nothing about, one bullet to the chest, one to the head then phone the boss man tomorrow to collect whats owed.

All the other roles are supporting roles, the Police officers, the broads, the inevitable chase and shoot out, but with so many twist's and turns you do not want this film to end. Maybe, a few scenes with illegal activity, hijacking a truck or two, maybe a casino floor wide-shot, or a racetrack, or betting shop might have made this film go down better, but what the hell, it scores 9, and is the best film we have watched for ages. I loved it, if it was produced in 1948 the Cagney and Bogart crime film period the queue for tickets would have stopped Broadway. Frank Vincent is the Stars star of this film, Mr Vincent can now reply if asked: Wasn't you once a big film star can now reply "I am still a big film star, it was the films that got smaller." Thanks Frank, Mr Vincent for putting some great acting on the screen for others to copy and learn from.

For the first 25 minutes this film looked a million dollars then it left the cinema, the audience, the script, the plot and everything that matters behind. Mark Walhburg the star was excellent. The other cast members not so great, what their roles where and who was who I did not have a clue. At least 50 people got shot, the target to be kiiled President looked like Robert Stack, who if he was - surely was a far better star than the rest of the cast, Danny Glover could sense he knew this film and his role in it was not going to work and it ended up in the office of the alleged Director of the FBI, with the final shootout containing five dead, bombs being exploded, a crooked Senators house set on fire, needless to say this film needed cut by an hour, and the staff, stars and the storyline reduced by 60%, the story should have stuck with a top ex army sniper out to get his man not to kill a whole army of film extras.