Dragnet 1987 by AverageMansReviews
Review Time
Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/animal
cruelty/drugs/white supremacy/shooting
P.A.G.A.N. [People Against Goodness and Normalcy:] LAPD [Los Angeles Police Department] Sergeant Joe
Friday [Dan Ackroyd] with his new partner Detective Pep Streebek [Tom Hanks]
are on the case to find out and stop this cult. The pacing for this 106 minutes
film is good in knows what it is doing and it sticks to that.
The character developments and
performances of our lead partnership are vital to this film, because they come
from very different worlds Friday; is 95% straitlaced in every way possible
from his hairstyle being clean and tidy with military precision, knowing the
rules inside and out with only two vices in his life; smoking and chilli dogs.
Whilst Streebek when we first meet him is an untidy individual until Friday
gives him a verbal dress down, Streebek is an outgoing, worldly people person.
Based on this dynamic and chemistry we have this excellent sometimes dry
comedy, where for an example we could be in this adult establishment where
Streebek tells Friday before coming here I am paraphrasing here I know where
"The best coffee in town is." So we end up here and Friday says I am
paraphrasing again " You are right this is good coffee." [Friday is
very much just interested in the coffee and nothing which is in front of him at
that time, he is still polite.] Or much earlier in the film we are having this
car chase that begins with Emil Muzz [Jack O'Halloran,] being woken up by our
partnership; they want to talk to him which in a nutshell he declines with
running over Friday's foot as he is sitting in this limousine; whilst this
chasing sequence is unfolding we have our partnership arguing on how to proceed
whilst dealing with the situation including Friday writing down the rules
Streebek is breaking as we speak, but don't worry Streebek grabs this little
notepad from Friday and throws it to out of the window in this chasing
sequence. This partnership balances each other out as they eventually slowly
become more like their partner. So this partnership of Ackroyd and Hanks is
priceless, some special mention has to go out to "the virgin" Connie
Swail [Alexandra Paul] this is/was a perfect match for Friday/Ackroyd; someone
soft and sweet, Captain Bill Gannon [Henry Morgan;] he is anchor to Friday and
Streebek chaos as he tries to keep Friday on the straight and narrow and what
is expected of him and finally Enid Borden [Kathleen Freeman] I can't say too
much about her scene other than she lets everything verbally hang out and she
well and truly doesn't care who is standing in front of her she's just going to
say it anyway she likes, the rest of the performances are all good.
This film receives: 8/10, this film is excellent; this is one of those
films that if you haven't seen it you should at least sit once-in-a-lifetime
and providing you have a suitable age, you can watch it or watch it with family
or friends with or without a takeaway on a Saturday night and be excellently
entertaining and finally if you ever wanted to hear Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks
rap wait around until the closing credits as they perform this music
track "City of Crime" 1987
with Glenn Hughes and Pat Thrall: In fact this is the music video for it/review
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