The French Connection - 8 stars out of 10
It would take an incredible film to beat A Clockwork Orange for best film but this film just doesn't quite make it. The performances of Hackman, Rey, and Scheider make The French Connection an incredibly gritty crime/cop drama that influenced every cop movie made since, but I don't think that it can match the imaginitive societal implications of A Clockwork Orange. That being said, this film is full of intensity through it's kickbutt characters, particularly in "THE train chase scene," one of the greatest in all of movie history. Hackman deservedly won the Oscar for best actor as he portrays "Popeye" Doyle, a cop that nobody would want to mess with. The fact that this movie is loosely based on real people makes it even more enjoyable and it explores the drug trafficking of heroin in the 1970's.
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