Boring, long, and too preachy.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

.............................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FLThis film, aside from its very special status mentioned above, is quite worthwhile and entertaining. It is an excellent George C. Scott vehicle, well-directed, well-scripted and well edited! Like other quality police dramas, it has several intertwined seamlessly integrated story lines, none of which is left unresolved, or most of which are left unresolved, when the end credits begin to roll…depending on your point of view! At times, on screen events resonant with such realism that it lends a dimension of docudrama to the overall production.CENTURIONS clearly transmits the boring nature of most of the daily, moment to moment activities that permeates police work, while, at the same time, emphasizing that this aspect of the job must be tempered by a heightened awareness intrinsic to survival owing to the ever-present possible reality of life-threatening scenarios on a one second event horizon! These "Men In Black" would, undoubtedly, prefer to live in a world where all their on-the- job decision options were delineated by a simple Black or White distinction. The reality of the New Centurions is that they clearly come in every imaginable shade of gray! Scott's cynical, scarred, veteran, Kilvinski, nearing retirement, has constructed a reality where his quasi-legal technique of locking up street- walkers in his paddy wagon and driving them around all night to keep the streets "clean and decent" is a necessary evil with which he feels, at least, reasonably comfortable! Keach's enthusiastic and idealistic rookie, Fehler, oozes frustration from every pore, as he perceives the lifeblood of his initial optimism being drained, drop by drop, by the cold, hard cement indifference of L.A.'s Mean Streets! Viewing, impotently, as both his marriage and his upbeat rookie positivism flounder in an ocean of problems, he finds consolation and support in the arms of a sensitive and empathetic nurse, played by Rosalind Cash.…Here is where I will reference the "Unheralded Epic First in Cinema History": I suppose that today, in 2015, in a perfect world, we are not supposed to notice or mention a good number of things because we must be "P.C.", right? But CENTURIONS wasn't made in 2015…It was released in 1972! To the best of my recollection, in the early 70's, whenever we saw a bi- racial on screen couple, which was really not all that frequently to begin with, their racial difference was always a focal point of the relationship. Usually because of the problems they encountered because of this difference from friends, from relatives or parents, from those in authority or simply from others in society! How briskly refreshing that in CENTURIONS they were just a police officer and a nurse who cared very dearly for one another… Absolutely no mention whatsoever of their racial difference! Isn't that exactly the way it should be? The way it is now…??? (Well, almost, anyway!).Hope to get some feedback from someone, anyone on this aspect of the movie… 9* Stars! ENJOY!/DISFRUTELA!

***SPOILERS*** From the pages of Joseph Wambaugh first and best selling novel about the men of the LAPD the movie shows how a job like a policeman can change a person into a mentally unstable individual if he lets it take over his life. There's' patrolman Andy Kilvinski, George C. Scott, a 25 year veteran of the LAPD facing retirement and breaking in young rookie cop Roy Fehler played by Stacey Keach with and without, at times during the film, a mustache. Kilvinski shows young Roy in how to do the job based on "Kivinski's Law" which worked so well for him over the years. At first only looking to be a cop until he finishes law school and become a full fledged shyster/lawyer Roy soon becomes married to his job and forgets law school as well as his wife Dorothy, Jane Alexander, who the job of being a policeman replaced.While at a stake-out that Roy get shot by peace loving two hippies, whom he caught making out in the backseat of a car, that hospitalized him from six months with a near fatal stomach wound. Back at work and with a new attitude Roy seemed to have lost his ability to do his job without his partner the wise old Andy Kilvinski guiding him in his work. By now the job as a policeman has taken over Roy's life so completely that his wife, taking their daughter along with her, left him leading Roy to drink which didn't make things that much better for him.***SPOILERS*** It's after Roy's partner Andy Kilvinski, who by then retired from the LAPD with 25 years service, came to visit his old precinct-the 25th- that Roy having better things to do like drinking and having an affair with a nurse-Rosalind Cash-who treated him for his injuries more or less fluffed him off. That feeling of rejection ended up turning Kilvinski, left alone and deserted by the men he worked with, to put a gun to his mouth and blow his brains out! Roy now on a guilt trip in feeling responsible for Kilvinski's suicide in a strange way gets his wish by getting killed on the job, by a local psycho, so he won't have to end up dying alone, by his own hand, with no one giving a cr*p if he was alive or dead like his friend and partner Andy Kilvinski. Realistic movie about police that was overlooked by the public and critics back then but has now become somewhat of a minor film noir classic.

The New Centurions is directed by Richard Fleischer, has a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, is based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh and stars George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander and Clifton James.One of the best films about patrolling the beat ever made in my opinion. George C. Scott is ferocious as Kilvinski the older police officer mentoring a young rookie called Roy Fehler(Stacy Keach). Kilvinski has seen it all in his years on the force and is surprised by no form of violence any more, he's tough but fair and does his best to help where he can. The film is split into a series of incidents involving Kilvinski and other officers.The New Centurions is a really bleak film that shows the horrific things which police officers have to deal with on a daily basis. There is a documentary feel to this film, you are made to feel as though you are patrolling the streets with these officers and encountering the villains and victims along with them.This film is shocking and violent and shows that these officers can face death at any time from anybody. We also see that this job emotionally destroys the men and women who do it, they seldom remain the same as they were when they joined the force. It's not just the dead officers whose photos hang on the station wall who pay a price, all the officers do in one way or another.The film also shows the effect a police officers career can have on their family, they spend more time on the job and sadly their family begins to come second place. Jane Alexander is excellent as Fehler's wife Dorothy who has to watch the job create quite an impact on their personal life.The entire cast give superb performances with special praise going to Scott.A scene that will stay with me forever is when one of the rookies is chasing a robbery suspect in the dark, somebody runs at him and he shoots them, when he gets closer he sees it's the father of the robbery victim who had come out into the alley to look for the suspect too. When the officer sees what he has done he breaks down and looks haunted, it's a powerful moment for sure.Grim, gritty and powerful, The New Centurions is a film that deserves to be much more well known today.

THE NEW CENTURIONS is a trend-setting police procedural thriller based on a best-selling novel that was itself written by a Los Angeles cop. It's a gritty and grimly realistic portrayal of the unrewarding life of a cop, where murder and alcoholism are just around the corner and the best thing a guy can hope for is not to be killed outright on the street that day. It's clear that this film was hugely inspirational, inspiring countless TV shows up to the present day, like the reality show COPS. I just wish the overrated END OF WATCH could have been more like this. Still, I digress: THE NEW CENTURIONS is blessed with an excellent cast that really brings the episodic storyline to life.Headlining the cast is the ever-tough George C. Scott playing, you guessed it, a real hard-ass of a cop who takes rookie officer Stacy Keach (young, thin, and handsome) under his wing. The pair spend their time busting drug dealers, hookers, and armed robbers, all the while interacting with other officers in the precinct. These include an impossibly young Scott Wilson (THE WALKING DEAD), playing alongside Clifton James (LIVE AND LET DIE) and an equally youthful Erik Estrada. THE NEW CENTURIONS is a well made production, and I appreciated the excessively downbeat and pessimistic tone which is no surprise given director Richard Fleischer had recently shot 10 RILLINGTON PLACE.