Dragnet (1987)

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at Apr 25 19:18

A classic comedy and crime caper starring Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd as a pioneering dysfunctional cop partnership. Relatively unheard of as far as I'm aware, this film was brought to my attention by a friend of mine who had obviously only bought it because of the cast listing, but I'm glad he did. The extremely articulate and precise Joe Friday is a cop who does everything by the book. Upon arriving at work one day he is unwittingly assigned to partner the increasingly unconventional Pep Streebeck, a wise-cracking ruffian who is perhaps the loosest cannon on the ship. together they are charged to break open a religious cult who are terrorising the city. Obviously, the partnership is doomed to succeed comically, but fail professionally and they're the best type of partnership. Eventu...Read more

Rating : 8/10