Review of Dragnet

Just the facts ma'am.

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. Eventually the duo come to realise and respect each others faults and manage to blow the case right open. I thoroughly enjoyed this film, from its great soundtrack through the hilarious partnership and right down to the final scenes in which Joe Friday managed to pull over a commercial airliner using his standard issue LAPD harrier jump jet. Classic stuff.

8/10

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Added by Grand Assault 1 year ago on 25 April 2008 07:18