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(BluR) La saga mafiosa de Lumet, su "Goodfellas", "Carlitos Way" o "Heat", su "Padrino" humilde, sin la fama de los otros, porque lo hace desde el filón que bien conoce de los policías corruptibles e incomprendidos, ese que no dominaron Scorsese o Coppola, pero sí Fleischer o Siegel y el buen Sidney. Y James Gray, otro subvalorado. Nolte nunca más atemorizante y todo lo de San Juan brilla

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Sidney Lumet’s work, I thought I might as well give it a try. Lumet had a rather productive career managing to direct more than 40 movies, some major classics, some major bombs and a whole bunch of really obscure features. This movie definitely belongs to the last group. It doesn’t mean that it was a bad movie though, in the contrary. Indeed, if there is one genre that Lumet really mastered, it was definitely the gritty crime feature and this flick is a pretty good example. I mean, it never reaches the level of ‘Serpico’ but it was still quite intriguing. As usual, Sidney Lumet managed to give the whole thing a really nice mood and Nick Nolte gave once again one hell of a performance. Against him, you had Timothy Hutton, an actor who never really managed to breakthrough even after winning an Academy award for ‘Ordinary People’ and there again, he didn’t really blow me away and he was obviously upstaged by the superior Nolte. Still, even though it might not be a masterpiece, I thought it was a really solid crime feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.