The French Connection

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Audience Member I've heard a lot about this film but I found it a bit underwhelming and a tad boring at times. There is the famous chase scene and the ending was good but overall I found it a little bit one dimensional and much preferred The Conversation as a film. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/18/25 Full Review Landon J For better or worse, this plays like something 15 years it's junior. Pioneering for the genre, never dull (for it's ilk), and very impressive technically. Subgenere fans should check this out and see where the entire industry almost certainly drew inspiration from. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/12/25 Full Review M B Gripping masterpiece! You could not recreate this with all the money in the world! Hackman and Scheider are incredible! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/08/25 Full Review Nano N Classic! Love the vintage gritty NYC streets and contrazting French scenes. Hackman living the part of Popeye, rogue cop. Gene Hackman in great physical shape, attracting young broads when he isnt chasing a suspect on foot for block after stairway after city block. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/27/25 Full Review Yash B On a technical level, "The French Connection" is expertly made. The way the movie crafted chase sequences and shootouts is really impressive. I can see why a movie that is this old still holds up in that regard. That being said, I feel like this movie is so thin on plot, story, and characters, and it never really engaged me in the way it should have. There are intense moments but I wish the movie gave me more to latch onto. Overall, I think it is an okay movie with many good qualities, but it doesn't really stand as one of the great Best Picture winners for me personally. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/22/25 Full Review David M I'm pretty sure I'd seen this before, a very long time ago - but my memory of it was only the car/train chase and something about 'picking your feet'. I finally got to this long overdue reacquaintance in memory of the much missed Gene Hackman. What struck me most about Friedkin's brilliant drug-crime thriller is the economy of it - not only in the run-time, but certainly that; but that somehow it's a film pared down to essentials. Nothing is there that doesn't need to be; every element of the film has a purpose. That's in the editing, the cinematography, the direction ... and the economy of the performances, especially Hackman's remarkable central performance. A classic that more than stand up, it stands an object-lesson in thriller film-making and also as a study in obsession. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/22/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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