Sunday, November 30, 2014

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)


A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Professionally staged cop thriller envisioning a bleak world full of likewise ruthless maverick cops and criminals.

Halliwell (no star): "High-gloss, foul-mouthed, hysterical crime melo, a kind of west coast French Connection."

Maltin*1/2: "Gritty movie equivalent of TV's Miami Vice makes it hard to root for anyone, since the good guys are as sleazy as the bad guys!...One spectacular car chase is not enough to counteract bad taste the film leaves behind."


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