Very Underrated Movie
After watching French Connection, Bullitt, and other action crime movies from the late 60s and 70s, The Sevenups should be rated along with the best of that era.
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I feel it was better in many ways.
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I'm going along with that. Underrated! And it has certainly has a surprisingly (and annoyingly!) low rating. (Even though I'm starting to chill more out with these ratings...but it's hard!)
shareWell, The Dark Knight is the highest rated movie on this site, so yes, you have to take the rating with a grain of salt. The Dark Knight was OK, but definitely not even close to the greatest movie ever.
shareI agree, The Sevenups is my favorite. The car chase scenes are very real! Check out the The Getaway, if you haven't yet. Any other's you recommend besides Bullitt, French Connection?
shareFour other good gangster-mob type movies that I enjoyed were Donnie Brasco, LA Confidential, Goodfellas, And Gotti.
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Every body Dies. John Garfield (Body and Soul)
Seven Ups came from the same people who produced French Connection, minus Bill Friedkin -- Philip D'Antoni produced FC but directed Seven Ups -- so there were bound to be similarities. Locations, cast, music, even cinematography are virtually indistinguishable. But aside from Scheider, this one doesn't have quite the same caliber of performances, and the story doesn't seem very thoroughly thought out.
That doesn't mean it's not a minor classic of sorts. I have it in my collection.
There, daddy, do I get a gold star?
i didn't think it was better then the french connection but i did think the car chase and a couple other elements of the film were better then that film. underrated thriller.
shareAnother great movie with a awesome car chase I would recommend too is "To live and die in LA" great car chase but... also movie directed by William Friedkin, the man who orchestrated the French connection car chase...
shareThe Blues Brothers care chase is a good one too!!
shareA GREAT movie ! Very underrated as it demands the viewer pay close attention to a complex plot. I can tell you that it is realistic as it depicted the police world and its relationship with the criminal underworld in the 1970's.
The chase scene is the best in all of moviedom,imho.
In many ways this movie was ahead of its time.
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Every body Dies. John Garfield (Body and Soul)
I'd put "The Laughing Policeman" just below the French Connection/Bullit/Seven-Ups category.
From the villians perspective, The Anderson Tapes is worth watching.
On the comedy tip, "Hot Rock" and "Freebie And The Bean" are related to the genre.
"Busting" with Elliot Gould and Robert Blake rounds out the lower end of the 70's hard-boiled detectives genre.
"In many ways this movie was ahead of its time".
Care to share what those ways are? Or is it just something to say that sounds good?
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
The idea of a special squad using dirty tricks or whatever it takes to accoomplish their mission.
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Every body Dies. John Garfield (Body and Soul)
Yes, I agree that depicting police work in such ways was far from common and quite edgy in 1973, but nevertheless dirty policework was something Popeye Doyle, for instance, had already practiced two years earlier.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I agree. This film is an under-rated, overlooked 70s NYC crime drama.
What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!
The film has a lot of positives and is worth watching, but the story was too convoluted and not very clear. My brother and I saw it in 1973 when we were 5 and 6 respectfully and we saw it on DVD 40 years later and we were just as lost in trying to follow the story (even at 6, I could follow major portions of The French Connection;) still the locations were wonderfully nostalgic enough to keep us watching.
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