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LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo's crime syndicate.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Busting:

Elliott Gould
Robert Blake
Allen Garfield
Antonio Fargas
Michael Lerner
Sid Haig

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LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo's crime syndicate.

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User Review - 8/10 by Richard DElliot Gould and Robert Blake are vice cops who find, after a series of their arrests are quashed by higher ups, that gangster Allen Garfield is behind most of the crime they encounter. They dedicate themselves to taking him down, even though nobody, including the police, seem to want him taken down. This flick has an extremely relaxed pace and amiable tone to it, and then kind of sneaks up on you as it gets increasingly intense. Gould and Blake feel like a really odd pairing on paper, but they play off each other really well. Sid Haig plays Garfield's main muscle guy, and Antonio Fargas and Michael Lerner also show up. This is the kind of film that seems underwhelming, but when it's done, you realize you really enjoyed it.
User Review - 8/10 by Wendy CThis is a cute movie to me. See the background in 1974. ha! it's even earlier than my age. The corruption lead the whole plot. Even these two cops try their best! How ironic!!
User Review - 8/10 by Eric RElliott Gould and Robert Blake play two Los Angeles cops whom follow the trail of a drug kingpin even though their superiors have been paid off to leave the drug lord alone. Gould and Blake are perfect as the two cops, whom are just crazy enough to go after the kingpin by themselves. This is a strong script with some fantastic banter between the two of them. Peter Hyams does some interesting things visually, with some very cool long takes/tracking shots that are really quite impressive. The ending of the film is fantastic and really does hit home.
User Review - 8/10 by Ian RElliott Gould and Robert Blake are perfect for this film. They remind me of gangsters with the way the talk and carry on.
User Review - 8/10 by Anthony PSolid buddy cop movie from 1974. Good chemistry between Blake and Gould. Gritty but not excessive in its depiction of vice with liberal doses of humor and an interesting story. Gould's laconic, world weary performance reminded me of his turn in the Long Goodbye.
User Review - 8/10 by xGary XA very cynical buddy cop movie from the seventies with some sharp, funny dialogue and real chemistry between the stars Elliot Gould and Robert Blake. A little known gem that Hyams virtually remade in the 80s as Running Scared.
User Review - 6/10 by Kris W"What this film exposes about undercover vice cops can't be seen on your television set....only at a movie theatre!" Two wacky, cynical Los Angeles vice cops (Gould and Blake) are forced to bust small-time drug addicts and hookers because their superiors are being paid off by the big guys. Good 70's cop movie, unfortunately came out after and is overshadowed by the far superior French Connection. Also stars Allen Garfield as the head bad guy, Sid Haig as his enforcer, and Michael Lerner as a seedy store owner. Huge Black Man: [while beating Keneely with brass knuckles] Hello, Keneely. You know what, Keneely? I gotta message for you, from my friend. He says: Shazam! That's all; Shazam. Can you dig it? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice Detective Michael Keneely: Wouldn't you think the man would've at least had the decency to stay for the sermon? Vice Detective Patrick Farrel: The Lord's gonna smoke his ass! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vice Detective Michael Keneely: "Dear Mom and Dad. How are you? I am just swell. A fag ate my leg."
User Review - 6/10 by Stephen EBusting is a cop show encapsulated, purely episodic in structure as the two vice cop heroes team on various assorted cases, with unstable degrees of success. It's in keeping with the refreshing realism of this period in the film's genre, as it's exceedingly cynical, robustly indicating that crime does pay, and that the biggest criminals in society are dishonest politicians and businessmen who will never be penalized. Were the production not as befuddled and awkward, this rather poorly titled actioner could easily rank among the two French Connections, Bullitt and the Dirty Harry series. Against an abrasive cityscape of backstreets and littered alleyways, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake star as vagabond vice squad detectives, the type who in actuality set the judicial system back decades. Elliott Gould, the tall one, incessantly chews bubble gum, ambles somewhat hunched and talks in the manner of someone fashioning himself on the star of an Elliott Gould movie, which is awesome. Robert Blake, an unlit cigarette inexplicably hanging from his lips, behaves like a guy who wishes he were tall and realizes he never will be. It doesn't trouble him, though it makes him a bit less compromising than most guys. Gould and Blake inhabit their work lock, stock and barrel. They consume most of their time apprehending people who are more of a perceived threat to society than a real one: call girls, massage parlor staff and gay bar regulars. It's simply what they do to keep the wheels turning, like road cleaners. It's one of the existential quirks of Busting that when the vice boys do get mixed up in their work, when they find themselves pursuing the Mr. Big accountable for the considerable multi-million-dollar L.A. rackets in addition to the trivial ones, they get thumped, both by the crooks and by their Police Department superiors who may, it would seem, stand for the posture of the society whose protectors they are: The action sooner or later gets around to charging Allen Garfield, cast as a local peer of the realm, with practically all illegal goings-on in town. Garfield, as ever an exceptional actor, brings poise and a sense of being wholly together to the role. As bemused as the Philip Marlowe Gould interpreted a year before in Altman's brilling Long Goodbye, this 1974 film was the first film by Hyams. His aptitude as a director is more apparent in this film than in any other he's done perhaps, especially in the visual highlights and in the performances. I have an idea that that the qualities of Gould and Blake, instead of the screenplay, are answerable for the distinctness provided the roles. They try a bit too hard for idiosyncrasy and funny habit, nonetheless they're effective at establishing particular characters. Hyams engineered something of an achievement by crafting a rough cop film sans taking advantage of the right-wing scorn that warns us all to arm ourselves. I.e., it recognizes that when cops and robbers are firing guns at each other in open places, the lookers-on aren't impervious to the bullets. When Gould and Blake chase some heroin pushers through a supermarket in a continuous gunfight, the movie shares the panic of the bystanders to the extent that it does the tension of the pursuit. It's this plane of alertness that secedes this possibly pioneering buddy cop picture from the subsequent second-hand goods in marketeering mockery of the genre that was given that healthy dose of gritty reality in the 1970s, not only by transcendent pictures like The French Connection and classics like Dirty Harry, but even bargains like Busting.
User Review - 6/10 by Brad Wthe movie achieves what I believe it was intending to give audiences. it is a part of a large movement of grittier, social commenting, fun to watch 70s cop films and doesn't really try to break any new ground. it really has a feel of a (slightly) R rated version of an episode of a 70s buddy cop show. 90% of the entertainment value is just watching Gould and Blake as partners and their interactions with the seedy criminal world. Hyams actually attempts to throw some style in the mix, with long tracking shots, but that's about it. The "climactic" end of the film is truly unexciting and almost cheap, but overall the movie is fun.
User Review - 2/10 by Brian HWell I'm going to try again to keep this thing up if I don't do anything else except talk about movies. That will be easier because Netflix has a sick load of choices. Of what I've seen lately, I liked "Nine Songs" better than most people. Explicit sex in a film doesn't bother me. I think it's a lot more honest than most of the beat around the bush crap they do in mainstream movies. "The Harmonists" turned out to be really moving. The dog was "Busting", a cop movie from the Dirty Harry school starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as grubby cops fighting the system. The plot was typically illogical, stacking the deck against the pair in ludicrous ways, but the real killer was Peter Hymas' direction. The man was addicted to hallways. Every second shot in the movie seemed to be a tracking shot down a long highway. Robert Blake was second banana in this but looking at his performance it was easy to believe this was his audition for "Baretta".

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