Review of The Super Cops (1974) by Stephen C — 31 Oct 2012
The Anti Serpico if you will based on the true life events surronding two rookie New York Cops who beat the system and did things in thier sometimes own rather wacky way.
Greenberg and Hantz are two rookie cops who take on drug dealers in their spare time much to the chagrin oftheir superiors who see them as nothing but trouble.
When they are fiannly assingned a police station their captain takes a shine to their biazzare methods and gives then carte blanche to run down a brotherhood of drug dealers praying on the area.
The film works because its help by two great central performances from David Selby and Ron Leibman as the two cops, they really have a natraul rapport and in some parts the film is very very funny.
Its also works beacuse the director is Gordon Parks who directed Shaft and knows how to use the New York loacations to his best advantage.
This review of The Super Cops (1974) was written by Stephen C on 31 October 2012.
The Super Cops has generally received positive reviews.
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