Sharky's Machine

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Summary: HERE COMES SHARKY!
Review: This is the best nior movie since "Body Heat" Burt Raynolds is wonderful I would have to say this is his best performance as an actor and his directing is pretty good to. The soundtrack to the movie is one of the best of the 1980's it features Sarah Vaughn and Joe Williams but it is very VERY Hard to find , Burt Raynold stars in and directs this atmospheric, volatile action thriller about an Atlanta cop whose gung-hotactics on a narcotics case gets him demoted to the vice squad. there he forms a colorful crew into a "MACHINE" aimed at a bigger pray: crimelord Vitor D'Anton (Vittorio Gassman). Playing vital cogs in "Sharky's Machine" are Brian Kieth, Charles Durning, Bernie Casey, Richard Libertini, Henry Silva and John Fiedler. Rachel Ward is a call girl who sets Sharky's personal and professional world spinning. It's easy to get attached to the likeable Characters these pros create. But beware. In sharky's bullet-for-bullet world, even the good die fast.

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Summary: Standard Format
Review: This is truely an excellent movie. I wanted this movie in the worst way. However, I am not a big fan of standard format movies. I'll try to hold out for a widescreen version of this film... Other than the format.I highly recommend this film.

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Summary: Make that three and a half....
Review: This is your standard hard-boiled, renegade cop versus the world story, but is so packed with great performances, chemistry, and unexpected plot twists that it delivers consistently from first to last frame. Burt Renyolds has always been a better actor that he's been given credit for, and this time he manages to put a few turns on the stock-cop antihero -- he alternates the standard brutal violence and sarcasm with shyness and romanticism -- so that the character never becomes a tedious, Mike Hammer-like caricature. But the best thing is the supporting cast, from
sultry-innocent Rachel Ward, who figured prominently in my adolescent fantasies (whatever happened to her anyway?) to the motley crew of misfit, exiled, burned-out cops Shakey assembles into his crime-fighting "machine" (Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Bernie Casey, and RIchard Libertini fit together hand-in-glove). On the other side is the ultra-smooth, ultra-decayed arch-villain played by Vic Gussman, who controls the city but can't quite get a handle on Sharkey, and his PCP-snorting psychopath of a brother, the always evil Henry Silva, who gets a handle on just about everybody in the movie (this guy kills more cops than Arnold Schwarzenegger did in "The Terminator"). The shoot-out at the end, between a Silva so pumped up on every kind of drug he just will not die, and Sharkey's fast-dwindling machine, on the top of an Atlanta skyscraper, is also a classic. If you like cop movies, expecially ones that don't completely abandon realism for the sake of blowing things up and gigantic body counts, this is for you.