
Detectives Steve Carella (Burt Reynolds), Meyer Meyer (Jack Weston), and Bert Kling (Tom Skerritt) are part of the 87th Precinct's team investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man (Yul Brynner). While attempting to investigate and prevent the murders of several high-ranking city officials, they also must keep track of the perpetrators of a string of robberies. Further complicating matters is a rash of arson attacks on homeless men.... (Full plot summary below)
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Detectives Steve Carella (Burt Reynolds), Meyer Meyer (Jack Weston), and Bert Kling (Tom Skerritt) are part of the 87th Precinct's team investigating a murder-extortion racket run by a mysterious deaf man (Yul Brynner). While attempting to investigate and prevent the murders of several high-ranking city officials, they also must keep track of the perpetrators of a string of robberies. Further complicating matters is a rash of arson attacks on homeless men.
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| User ReviewElizabeth RI've always loved this move. A different style of filming, a real life feel to it. Funny moments too. |
| User ReviewDonald WThis is movie is set in Boston in the early 1970's. It's a comedy but it tries to be realistic. That's hard to do when the plot involves a group of killers extorting money from the city by killing members of the city government. If this were to happen for real it would be a major news story and the whole city would be shutdown till the criminals were caught. There are too many plot lines running through the movie that prevents the stars of the movie being on screen in much of the movie. If you have Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch in a movie in the 1970's, that's who you want to see on screen, not the supporting actors. The shows the technology the police were using in the 1970's. There are old fashion switchboards and rotary telephones. They use big bulky two-way radios to long antennas. The mayor used punched card auto-dial machines to make phone calls. The painters try to steal a bunch of old manual type writers. However they all looked like they came out of the 1940's. It would have been better if they had been using IBM electric typewriters from the 1960's. In 1970 those old manual typewriters would have been worthless. In the background of the outdoor scenes there are real life scenes of Boston with cars from the 1960's and 1970's. The clothes are not trendy so if someone wore the same clothes today they wouldn't look out of place. The movie is a mix of Dirty Harry and MASH. It tries but doesn't have any good jokes. |
| User ReviewTim SOk, so Fuzz definitely won't win any awards for originality or even pushing the envelope, but it doesn't need to. It's one of the most enjoyable cop dramedies that Robert Altman never made. It really does feel Altmanesque to me at times (if there is such a thing). The word is that its two main stars, Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch, didn't get along so well during the filming. That may or may not be true, but I know that they don't really share any scenes together at all, so I couldn't see it as being a major problem. Apparently, the film is based on a series of novels by Ed McBain. There were some changes, as always, including giving the city an official place and setting, as well as pushing it into more comedic territory. It's tone is definitely not consistent, and it doesn't really succeed at any tone it's trying to settle on at the time, but it winds up being fun anyways. That's a pretty tough thing for a dramedy. Yeah it works, but the wheels do squeak a bit. |
| User ReviewJoel KDecent story. Good cast Reynolds, Skerritt, Welch. I like James McEachin in all his bit parts. Raquel Welch's wardrobe in this movie is great. They could have done a lot more with Welch's character and with Yul Brynner's bad guy character. Could have been a lot better, but how can you ever top real quality 1970's chase music from a movie? That's just it you can't. |
| User Reviewwild willie nEd McBain's 87th Precinct comes to the big screen with this surprisingly cheeky crime drama. With a screenplay by McBain himself (going by Evan Hunter) it retains the gritty big city atmosphere and offbeat characters. It gets off to a strong start, but isn't quite able to sustain its comic energy. Entertaining, but falls short of what it could have been. Great (if very dated) score by Dave Grusin. |
| User ReviewOrlok WBased upon Ed McBain's series of 87th Precinct books published between 1956 and 2005, this was the adaptation of the 22nd book in the series, Fuzz, which was published in 1968, and adapted by McBain himself under the pen-name of Evan Hunter. This was intended to start a series of films based on the 87th Precinct series of books, sadly that never happened, and it is a silly comic-thriller which has a good cast. At the 87th Precinct in Boston, Detectives Steve Carella (Burt Reynolds), Meyer Meyer (Jack Weston), Eileen McHenry (Raquel Welch), and Bert Kling (Tom Skeritt) are investigating the series of arson attacks on homeless men, the Precinct got phone calls warning that this would happen, but the police brushed it off as a crank call. Plus, there's been a series of robberies and extortions ending in murder, after going undercover, Carella and Meyer as nuns, they discover the mastermind is a mysterious man just known as The Deaf Man (Yul Brynner), but as they get closer, more arson attacks on homeless men occur, as a message to the Precinct. It's a silly film, and it probably should have been taken more seriously, but it's also a good timepiece of how Boston was in the early 1970's, this and Deliverance helped make Reynolds a star, and he has fun has as the loose cannon detective, and it's a sign of what was to come in his career. |
| User ReviewOla GBased on the Ed McBain novels about the 87th Precinct and the cops that are part of this specific precinct. We follow Detective Steve Carella (Burt Reynolds) and his colleagues on the hunt for all kinds of criminals, specifically The Deaf Man (played by Yul Brunner). Well, this was not very good I am afraid to say, and I do not agree with Roger Ebert in his point of view on this movie when it came out. "Fuzz" is just a mish mash of some well known faces, not so good dialogue, bad editing, sloppy acting, a too lose script and obvious Hollywood made up city scenery. I have never red Ed McBains novels either, so I reckon I did not have the right view of what the 87th Precinct should be. Nevertheless, this is a mess as a film in many ways and I can not really recommend it. |
| User ReviewBob WNOT to be confused with HOT FUZZ lol. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time... gee. Typical 70s sitcom cop caper. Funny, but tedious. |
| User ReviewBrian WA bit dissappointing considering the cast, but it just felt like they weren't sure if they were making a comedy or a serious movie, even though they do create a couple laughs along the way. |
| User ReviewJohn YThe worst thing about this film is that half the actor's think it's a drama and half think it's a comedy. The ending is awful too. |