This is an example of the 1970s cop movie with the brutal cop with expedient methods, who fights against his hierarchy that does not appreciate his methods. Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971) canonized these chromos. It is therefore a canvas seen over and over again.
Nevertheless, the film contains a number of qualities. The first quality is its settings in both New York or Los Angeles and California: the film is shot on real sets. This gives it a documentary patina and anchors it in a certain reality. The film begins in the city, continues in the desert and ends in the city in the underground parking lots.
Moreover, the film contains at least one hallucinating sequence: the one that takes place in the hippies' "meditation" camp with poor Charles Bronson in the middle of it all (dances, drugs, free love, trances) who tries to look serious and continue his investigation. The film also contains its share of foot chases, then car chases, then car and motorcycle chases. And of course the film also contains its share of shootings, obligatory elements of this kind of film.
All in all, the villains are members of the Italian mafia. The Mafia, which tries to kill each other (families) and this is one of the good moments of the movie because they are all murdered by a commando of killers (second group of bad guys, like white supremacists or right-wing military) paid by Martin Balsam (not very credible as a mafioso - we would have cast him more as Charles Bronson's boss -).
We are not here in a great masterpiece. But the film can be watched with curiosity. Charles Bronson has a number of lines of dialogue. And he manages to have several expressions on his face throughout the film; even if it seems a bit fabricated and even seems at times unconcerned by the story.
Nevertheless, the film contains a number of qualities. The first quality is its settings in both New York or Los Angeles and California: the film is shot on real sets. This gives it a documentary patina and anchors it in a certain reality. The film begins in the city, continues in the desert and ends in the city in the underground parking lots.
Moreover, the film contains at least one hallucinating sequence: the one that takes place in the hippies' "meditation" camp with poor Charles Bronson in the middle of it all (dances, drugs, free love, trances) who tries to look serious and continue his investigation. The film also contains its share of foot chases, then car chases, then car and motorcycle chases. And of course the film also contains its share of shootings, obligatory elements of this kind of film.
All in all, the villains are members of the Italian mafia. The Mafia, which tries to kill each other (families) and this is one of the good moments of the movie because they are all murdered by a commando of killers (second group of bad guys, like white supremacists or right-wing military) paid by Martin Balsam (not very credible as a mafioso - we would have cast him more as Charles Bronson's boss -).
We are not here in a great masterpiece. But the film can be watched with curiosity. Charles Bronson has a number of lines of dialogue. And he manages to have several expressions on his face throughout the film; even if it seems a bit fabricated and even seems at times unconcerned by the story.