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Teen Movie Critic One of William Friedkin's better works of film, this follows the pursuit of a counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe) by a tough secret service agent (William Petersen), who is just as bad as Dafoe. It features one of the best film chases in recent history, as Petersen and his buddy are being chased along the LA freeway, going down the wrong way! It has great performances by Petersen, Dafoe (cool as a cucumber in his part), Dean Stockwell as Dafoe's lawyer, and John Turturro as one of Dafoe's sleazy cronies. With the gritty feel of NYPD Blue and Friedkin's earlier The French Connection, and one hell of a great chase sequence, this is destined to be an action classic in the next few years. (4 star review) |
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TNT Rough Cut To Live & Die in L.A., a slam-bam thriller from William Friedkin, offers Willem Dafoe in his first bad-guy role and William L. Petersen acting every bit the movie star the studios hope he'll become. Style overcomes substance, but who cares? |
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| 99 Lives Video Magazine "Last Man Standing" Nevertheless, ["Last Man Standing"] is not adroitly filmed; the camera work is inexpert. Come to think of it, it's downright sloppy. There's a car chase sequence which aspires to be like the one in To Live and Die in L.A. where William Petersen drives the wrong way on the freeway - shucking and jiving into oncoming traffic while John Pankow hyper-ventilates in the back seat. "Aspires to be like" is the operative phrase, here. Last Man's freeway ride, in which Snake and his goons drive their van against traffic with a motorcycle-bound Bellmore in pursuit, doesn't touch the coarse beauty of To Live and Die's tense, cleverly choreographed piece of kinetic art. |
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