Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaDetectives at a rundown police precinct in Boston scramble to catch a bomber who's targeting local politicians while trying to extort money from the city.Detectives at a rundown police precinct in Boston scramble to catch a bomber who's targeting local politicians while trying to extort money from the city.Detectives at a rundown police precinct in Boston scramble to catch a bomber who's targeting local politicians while trying to extort money from the city.
- Patrolman Cramer
- (as Roy Applegate)
- Detective
- (as Brian Doyle Murray)
Recensioni in evidenza
Attempt at bringing the irreverent, anti-establishment, comedy-drama of M*A*S*H to the police squad, is a complete disaster. The 'wacky' humor is both empty and annoying. Throwing in some strained sentiment and jarring action makes it even more baseless.
The actors seem to be just walking through their roles and the direction has no energy or vision. The pacing is disjointed without any rhythm or logic. Just about every shot is dark and shadowy. Like it was filmed on a camera with a very bad exposure.
The police station just never seems real. The precinct on BARNEY MILLER is more believable. Also having Reynolds and Weston dress as nuns just to catch the bad guy is a perfect example of forced humor.
The lowest point involves a unnecessary story thread where Welch goes after a prostitute killer. The final confrontation scene between her and the killer is a complete and pathetic rip off of the similar scene in KLUTE (complete with those chiming piano chords). This alone solidifies it as one of the biggest bombs of all time. If that's not enough you also have Dinah Shore singing "I'll be Seeing You" over the closing credits.
The whole thing is just excruciating. Does feature a young up and coming Tom Skerrit. Also has Charles Martin Smith as a punk who sets street bums on fire.
Burt Reynolds stars in this ensemble comedy/drama about a mad bomber trying to extort money from a wealthy man. It's an uneasy mix of comedy and drama especially when people start getting blown up. The cops also come off as a bunch of really stupid oafs without any common sense at all.
Reynolds plays the same character Lansing played on TV. Raquel Welch shows up as a cop and is totally miscast and unbelievable, though to be fair, it's a badly written role. Other cops include Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, James McEachin, Steve Ihnat, Dan Frazer, and others. Gino Conforti and Gerald Hiken plays i for laughs as a copy of wisecracking painters assigned to re-do the squad room. And Neile Adams shows up for one scene as Reynolds' deaf wife (the Rowlands part on TV).
The bad guys are headed by Yul Brynner as a hearing-impaired maniac and Don Gordon and Peter Bonerz as his main stooges. There's also a couple of kids played by Charles Martin Smith and Gary Morgan who run around torching drunks (a real barrel of laughs).
Nothing quite works and the film makes Boston look like a burned out slum.
Based on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct. The screenplay is written by McBain using his real name and it has criss crossing storylines featuring the cops from 87th Precinct relocated to Boston.
Detective Steve Carella (Reynolds) is posing as an homeless man as someone is setting the local bums on fire. Detective Eileen McHenry (Raquel Welch) is a specialist transferred to the precinct to deal with rape crimes.
There is an extortionists known as the Deaf Man (Yul Brynner) who calls the police station making demands for money. If his demands are not met, he will kill a city official.
The Deaf Man has targeted the station because the cops are inept. Some of them cops are irritated by the wisecracking decorators sent by the city's maintenance department.
I expected Fuzz to be more like the French Connection with Reynolds as the main lead. It ends up more like MASH. An uneven hybrid of genres. It is a good but patchy film.
The film's conclusion is a messy series of coincidences.
Somehow it is also ahead of its time anticipating television dramas like Hill Street Blues that would arrive by the early 1980s.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizBurt Reynolds almost suffered serious burns to his face while doing his own stunt during a scene in which he is set on fire. Out-of-control flames whipped up his asbestos-lined coat sleeve, around his neck, and along the back of his head. This cut made it into the movie.
- BlooperDon Gordon as an armed robber loads six cartridges into his .38 revolver and sticks it in his belt. When they get to the liquor store the gun he pulls out of his belt is a semiautomatic 9mm Walther P-38 pistol. When he kicks in the door he has the .38 revolver in his hand.
Three men, all armed with six-shot .38 revolvers, then get into a fast and furious gun fight in which about 30 shots are fired.
- Citazioni
Detective: What do you mean they're putting garbage in your car?
Man with Garbage: Every morning garbage in the front seat. You know, coffee grounds, potato peels and moldy fruit. It just gets such a mess when it gets on the floor and, you know, walking around with it slipping on your heels. It's disgusting; old chewed up bones like they had a dog or something. And one day it looked as though somebody had blown their nose in pieces of old toilet paper and wet cigarette butts and things like that. It's really disgusting, and you can't find that in your car seat every morning and live through it. My stomach turns and I really threw up several times, but not in the front seat of the car.
- Curiosità sui creditiEvan Hunter wrote the "87th Precinct" novels under the nom de plume Ed McBain. For this film, he is credited with the screenplay under his own name, but as McBain for "based on the novel by."
- ConnessioniFeatured in Inside 'Live and Let Die' (1999)
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- Fuzz
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(police station interiors)
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 566.628 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 32 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1