52 Pick-Up
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Movie Reviews of 52 Pick-Up
Movie Review: 52 Pick Up is a great sleazy thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite movies with Roy Schieder besides Jaws. It is a classic sleazy thriller with great villians, especially John Glover. The scene with the murder of the girl is hardcore and shocking. When I first saw this scene, I could not believe how real it was. It is something you never forget. I love how Roy turns the tables on the villians and turns them against each other. This movie is definitely worth checking out if you have never seen it. I highly reccomend it. It has one of the best endings ever.Movie Review: 52 Pick-Up
Summary: 5 Stars
Yeah I was happy to receive this when I was in Afghanistan...movie watching was my pass time there because there is not much els to do. Well, DVD arrived with no scratches or other petty problems.Movie Review: Crime comes to L.A.
Summary: 5 Stars
Exciting movie that keeps you guessing until the end. Characters are well developed. Plot is interesting and clear.Movie Review: Leonard and Frankenheimer get down and dirty
Summary: 4 Stars
52 Pick-Up was one of the few rays of light in the dark days when every screen adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel would go horribly wrong and when John Frankenheimer's name on the credits wasn't exactly a guarantee of quality any more, although it sank quickly due to a botched marketing campaign (the producers decided to play up the good reviews by touting it as `The best film this season from Cannon,' which is a bit like boasting about having the least contagious form of VD). A riff on his earlier Western The Tall T, this sees businessman Roy Scheider set up by a trio of blackmailers who, not taking kindly to him confessing his affair to his wife rather than pay up, murder his girlfriend with his gun so as not to miss out on their payday, only for Scheider to turn them against each other. While it's no Out of Sight, it's an effectively seedy L.A. thriller with a couple of outstanding supporting turns by John Glover and a seriously mucked-up and dangerous Clarence Williams III.
No extras at all, but it does have a decent 1.85:1 widescreen transfer.
Movie Review: Ahead of it's time
Summary: 4 Stars
At the time this movie came out, Roy Scheider already looked an old man - especially seeing him now, starts me wondering what's his age now, anyway. Still, his acting performance is almost a classic one and Ann Margret is cast excellently as his wife that he betrayes.
True, some scenes are a little out of date now. They show that movie making has grown since but that's not always an improvement if you ask me. The specific scene where they put Scheider under pressure with a little home movie still is impressively nasty. And even Vanity - what has become of her, by the way? - puts up a nice performance as a very believable key person in the story.
This movie is about making the wrong decision(s) after making the wrong moves with the wrong people, almost a classical Hollywood theme. But it does just that in an artistic and stylish way with excellent actors and I have to add that it's a very good and entertaining movie that kept me glued to the screen then. And still like to watch it, now. Recommended.
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