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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A daft but enjoyable Italian crime thriller starring everybody's favourite Italian leading man, Tomas Milian. The first half mainly consists of action as Milian battles and chases various criminals on his trusty motorbike, while snapping at people in the way that tough Italian cops invariably do. A wealth of cheesy dialogue, well-staged action and a fast-moving plot make it very easy to take and an enjoyable viewing experience. In the second half, evil businessman Jack Palance makes his unwelcome appearance. His hoods beat up and kill a man at a snooker hall in a violent confrontation. After this, Milian wages war on Palance and hunts him down, events culminating in a cross-country chase by car.Milian here adopts the persona of Al Pacino in SERPICO, as a laid back, weirdly-dressed cop who looks more like a hippie. Milian has posters of Pacino in his bedroom and keeps a pet mouse in his pocket (the mouse turns up unexplainedly wearing a hat in the last shot - a cool, but weird surprise!). Milian's growling, startlingly athletic role is a good one and the genre veteran acquits himself well with it, creating a funny, likable character. His opposite - the movie's villain - is played by the ever-grinning Palance, who does his usual thing (smokes cigars, smiles a lot and just acts kind of sleazy).Highlights include the flat-out action ending, which really gets the pulse going; a never-ending scene where Milian chases a gang, first up a flight of stairs on his motorbike and then across a roof; a fight in a market; plus a horrible '70s disco inhabited by a crudely-drawn homosexual and a cameo dancer who proceeds to put his jacket on back to front (!?!). Although the plot is simple in the extreme (the "cops and robbers" idea at it's crudest), there are lots of characters and situations to make it seem more complicated than it really is; the genre staples of beatings, gang fights, shoot-outs, car chases etc. are all presented in a stylish way. The twee theme music is annoying at first but soon grows on you too. THE COP IN BLUE JEANS is a solid addition to the Italian crime cycle and worthwhile viewing for all action-orientated fans!

After the spaghetti western genre died in Italy, Italian filmmakers moved to cop movies. Like with spaghetti westerns, there were good and not so good efforts, this movie belonging to the latter category. Tomas Milian, an actor who's made an impression in other movies, seems kind of helpless here, thanks to the costume department dressing him up like a homeless person, and a screenplay that gives him very few opportunities to show some kind of character. Jack Palance is pretty much wasted - he only makes two very brief appearances in the first hour, and not much more in the last half hour. But the main problem with the movie is that it feels oh so tired. There are chases, punch-ups, and guns fired, but it all feels so mechanical. Maybe that's why the musical score plays the same bars of music over and over ad nauseum. Even die hard fans of Eurocult movies would be better off skipping this one.

Surprisingly engaging poliziottesco spoof which actually led to a series, all featuring star Tomas Milian as maverick cop Nico Giraldi; in fact, a total of 11 films were made between 1976 and 1984! I know a few of them turned up on Italian TV as a kid but I had always considered them - and Milian's other contemporaneous series revolving around a character nicknamed "Monnezza" (Italian slang for "garbage"), but which lasted for only 3 'episodes' - low-brow, indeed bottom-of-the-barrel, stuff; considering that their titles - and I'm sure plot lines - were basically interchangeable certainly makes their longevity astounding! Well, action-packed though it is - with the star (playing a street-wise ex-delinquent dressed as a bum with a mouse, Serpico, for a pet!) going through many a stunt on a motor-bike - the film's most prominent trait is its vulgarity which doesn't merely extend to a proliferation of colorful swearwords; indeed, the very first scene shows a chubby young man mooning a group of Japanese tourists from across the street, in order to distract them while his accomplices make off with their luggage in a van! As such, the film is enjoyable in an unassuming way - though the muddy soundtrack and the characters' frequent resort to the use of dialect made the dialogue a bit of a chore to understand, even for one who's fluent in the language like myself! - and it's certainly made even more tolerable by the presence of a predictably ruthless Jack Palance (whose real identity proves quite a revelation!).The finale, then, is at once amusing and clever in that Milian - assigned to a special squad dealing with "snatch & grab" cases, hence the original title SQUADRA ANTISCIPPO - resorts to just such a crime in order to help his lovely girlfriend, whose job it is to smuggle provocative literature into the country!; they had met when Milian saved the girl from being raped: keeping her watch and other valuables in her bra, he wonders what she'd say if someone asked her the time, perhaps "a quarter to tits"?! P.S. at one point, Milian says "La Polizia Ringrazia" (The Police Is Thankful) - which happens to be the title of the 1972 film (released in the U.S. as EXECUTION SQUAD) credited with kick-starting the whole poliziottesco subgenre!

Tomas Milian is a very good Italian actor who is know for play non-traditional protagonists. He plays Nico, 1/2 cop - 1/2 ex-con, who is dirty (literally), unshaved and doesn't like to wash (he also wears multiple pairs of socks, shirts and an ugly assortment of hats). This movie attempts (unsuccessfully) to capture (exploit) various elements of successful American movies and themes. The director definitely enjoyed Steve McQueen in the Great Escape (the director loves motorcycles - he put them everywhere in the movie. I'm surprised they weren't listed in the credits) and Al Pacino in Serpico (a poster hangs in Nico's apartment - and he names his white mouse Serpico). Thats where the similarities end. There are so many pointless motorcycle jumps, and chase sequences (the sequences are accompanied by Italian "spaghetti" music - one expects some pizza and sausages to fly in during the sequences) and fights, that one wonders what movie the director is trying to pay "homage" to. The criminal element in Italy is quite comical. The "bad" guys, who are indistinguishable from the "good" guys, usually surrender willingly once caught. They actually stand there .. and wait patiently while the cops fumble to cuff them. This movie does have a heavy Hollywood power to the credits, namely Jack Palance. If you watch this movie, you will be saying the same thing : "Where the hell is Jack ?" Jack is literally in 4 scenes (one scene shouldn't count considering it was mostly a stunt driver and Jack in a stationary vehicle) throughout the movie and a total screen presence of about 10 minutes. Out of the scenes he is in, he is dealt much physical harm; from the spray paint (mace) to the face to the infamous Nico knee to the crotch diplomacy tactic. In the end, this movie is more pointless than going to the corner store to get some smokes. If you want to see a good Milian movie, check out Companeros. If you want to see a good Jack Palance movie .. ... keep looking. In the end, this is a great movie for insomniacs and those returning from a night of debauchery.