the leading man is my tpye

best movie i've ever seen.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

The French Connection is one of the best action thrillers ever made. The story is about two under cover agents who are investigating a big drug deal. The target was so intelligent and hard to track down. In order to obtain proper evidence against the target, the two cops follow him though out.One of the best chase sequence in the history of cinema was from this movie. The making of this chase sequence is so popular. Most of the incidents including an accident was real. One of the best action films that you don't ever miss. Highly recommended.#KiduMovie

New York police detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo are staking out a suspected drug transaction. When it goes down they capture one of the dealers who reveals a connection to a large French drug cartel, run by Alain Charnier. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse.Good but not great. A fairly conventional detective drama. Quite gritty, but there is a large element of style over substance, especially massive chase scenes and protracted shootouts. I actually prefer the sequel, The French Connection II (and sequels being better than the original is an incredible rarity, especially for me). Decent performances though. Gene Hackman won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Popeye Doyle and Roy Scheider got a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing Cloudy Russo.The movie itself won the 1972 Best Picture Oscar.

"The French Connection" is a gritty, harsh film that looks at the underworld of drug dealing and efforts of the law to bring down the big narcotics dealers. This is an intense film that tries to show the real world of the drug scene in New York City. The R rating is serious, and many adults may find this film unsettling. It is a good film as a study of the subject, based on a book about two real New York police detectives in the 1960s. But it clearly is not entertainment. The screenplay has been fictionalized. The performances across the board are excellent. This film won five Oscars, including four of the five top honors. It won best picture for 1972, and William Freiedkin won as best director. Gene Hackman walked away with the best actor Oscar and Ernest Tidyman scored for the best writing of a screenplay based on another source. Only the best actress of the top five awards was missing – and that because there wasn't a major female role in the film. "The French Connection" also was the first R-rated movie, since the MPAA ratings began in November 1968, to win a best picture Oscar. As of this writing (January 2017), every best picture Oscar winner—except one, since 2004 has been an R-rated film. "The French Connection" also ushered in an era of new crime films. They deal more with the gritty, seedy and often crude operations involving the underworld and law and order. Some quick ones on the heels of this film were "The Godfather" in 1972, "Serpico" in 1973," The French Connection II" in 1975, and on through "Scarface" of 1983 and to the present day.These are far from family films, and many adults may not like them. I don't know that one would consider this film entertainment, but it is interesting. I watch such films occasionally because they show a side of a real world that most people don't otherwise see or know. They are disturbing, and that should be a good sign for viewers who don't want such a culture to flourish.

I had never seen this much lauded movie from 1971 about New York City police detectives intercepting a heroin shipment from France. The first thing that struck me when watching the film was the grimness of 1970s New York City, its highways, streets and subway are excellently captured by the director with its sounds of street horns replacing the need for a soundtrack. The main characters are police officers Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his slightly younger partner Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider). Hackman and Scheider both look so young when I consider there later roles in films such as Jaws (Scheider) and the Superman franchise (Hackman). Popeye (not the cartoon character!) is an overtly racist, streetwise cop whilst Russo is the calming influence in the partnership! The drug side is led by Marseilles entrepreneur Charnier (Fernando Rey), the late Spanish Rey is perhaps best known for his work on some of Luis Buñuel films and has a filmography as big as anyone! Tony Lo Bianco who I only watched last week in the cult classic The Honeymoon Killers also has a role. The grime of New York is contrasted with the opulence of Marseilles and a brief scene in Washington DC. A chase sequence featuring a gas guzzling car of the era against an overhead Subway train is memorable for its editing and realism. The film won Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor (Hackman) and editing Oscars. Whilst good I don't actually rate it as good as Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood. Again perhaps its is the grime of a cold, winter New York versus the relative sunshine of San Francisco? Also the film ends pretty downbeat with drugs being smuggled into New York via a Lincoln car, Charnier escaping the law and a ruined building scene.