4/5 A good, straightforward tale
  by Cassandra Redux
This movie, along with its companion piece The Super Cops, gives you a taste of NYC in the 1970s. While neither are big budget blockbusters like The French Connection & Serpico, both get their storytelling job done efficiently & in a way that'll sitck in your mind for its spareness. I recommend that you buy French Connection & Serpico along with this film & Super Cops, then get The Panic In Needle Park & the first Death Wish, & lastly The Anderson Tapes & Dog Day Afternoon. That collection will allow you to see how bad life was back then in The Big Apple from 3 perspectives (Law enforcement, citizen, & criminal) & how much things have improved by comparison. Not perfect by any stretch, but WAY better than it was, & as a buddy of mine from the Bronx said: "As bad as things were, we could always say that @ least it wasn't like New Jersey & Detroit......YET!", then he'd smile, & that smile made me glad I was living in Oakland/California @ the time!

5/5 roy scheider
  by Lisa (CT)
This is a classic movie that is never played on television, so I just had to have it in my collection. This is an action packed movie and Roy Scheider is superb.

5/5 NY COP STORY - GRITTY, SEEMS REAL, GREAT ACTING ALL AROUND
  by D. Crow
Great movie - they don't make them like this anymore. Actually I don't think theye ever did, with the exception of The French Connection (Scheider was in that too), and Bullitt with Steve McQueen.

5/5 "Not Just Any ol Lemon-Lime Drinks"
  by Phoebe Stogstill (by the shores of Gitchee Goomie)
This movie was probably intended as a B movie to pad out a studio's production list. What resulted however, is a great action/suspense movie with one of the BEST automobile chase scenes (Bullit and the French Connection are the other two) in the business. Roy Schieder is very good in this film. It has turned into a classic.

4/5 Great car chase !
  by Brad Lloyd (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
I agree 100% with M. Lamans review and what a car chase, although its very reminiscent of Bullits car chase, even the sounds of the car engines.

The huge Pontiac Granville Vs. a Pontiac Ventura from this movie is not quite the same as The Mustang Vs. a Dodge Charger in Bullit.