Across 110th Street
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Movie Reviews of Across 110th Street
Movie Review: Old school at its best
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like old school blacksploitation films then you will love this. It is chock full of well know actors and the theme is outta sight!Movie Review: Worth Seeing, but . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
It was worth seeing, but could have been so much better. Our story starts with the botched robbery of a "mafia bank in Harlem" which results in seven deaths, including two police officers. After that the focus splits and we follow three parallel stories as we watch the cops try to solve the crime, the mob try to remind the inhabitants that it is the mob that runs Harlem, and the thieves try to escape.
The main focus of the story is on the relationship between a violent, racist, older detective (Anthony Quinn) and his young, smart, honest, black counter-part (Yaphet Kotto).
Watching this movie you get the feeling that it was the "big studio" answer to the b-movie blaxsploitation craze. It has copious quantities of graphic violence (albeit lame 70s special effects type violence), it has racial tension, and it preaches a message of racial equality . . . and boy does it preach.
The story is interesting. The characters are very interesting and well developed (especially for this type of movie). You can't help but like this movie and want it to be better than it is. But boy does this movie preach . . . The white detective isn't just a racist, he isn't just an alcoholic, he isn't just a violent thug, no - just in case you didn't figure out that racism is bad and he is a "not good" character, they had to also make him be on the take.
If this movie had been just a little more subtle (and the above is only one example) it probably would have gotten four stars from me. I don't object to an "action movie" with a message. I do object to being beaten over the head repeatedly with the message. All in all, it's worth the effort to watch, if only so that you can speculate on how good it could have been
Movie Review: Brutish, noisy, incoherent police melodrama, with fashionable sadism and predictable performances...
Summary: 3 Stars
"Across 110th Street" is about a hijack of Mafia cash, in which Anthony Quinn became involved in an unsympathetic role as an old-line cop, on the take for years and ready to retire...
Quinn gives a controlled, nicely shaded performance of a character who has long ago sensed that all his efforts are not going to do more than lift the smallest corner of the lid of crime... He does his job and he does it well according to his lights, but he is not above taking a bribe from a racketeer... His method of dealing with a reluctant witness is to hit hard first and ask questions later...
His captain Frank Mattelli actually is part of the film's somewhat irrelevant subplot, dealing with the rivalry between two cops, while the police, the Mafia and the black syndicate each tries to track down the gang of hoods which knocked over Harlem numbers bank...
The strictly legal approach to police work, as exemplified by Yaphet Kotto is not for Quinn... This is his territory, his little kingdom, and he keeps the peace as best he knows...
Movie Review: Could Have Been Really Good.
Summary: 3 Stars
I honestly think that Across 110th Street could have been a really good film as opposed to one that now has the reputation of being a B Movie. Yaphet Kotto was great as Lieutenant Pope but he was one of the few individuals in this production who gave his role the appropriate subtlety. I love Anthony Quinn but found his Captain Mattelli to be way over the top. Honestly, the amount of racism on display in the relations between blacks and whites is truly frightening and clashes mightily with reality. Indeed, such levels of racial animosity were likely not ever present in a northern city after the end of The Civil War. It just did not sit right with me and prevented my truly enjoying the film. The topic, the conflict between the mob and the Harlem syndicate, could not be any more interesting, however. The same can be said of the intense amount of corruption that plagued the NYPD during the 1970s.Movie Review: Decent, Gritty 70s Police Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
I liked the fact that this movie was filmed on location. It was the beautiful 70s New York from the movies I remember as a kid.The story was fine, the action was good. The plot moved along a bit slowly and Anthony Quinn's character was a bit over the top.
I love Yaphet Koto and it was great seeing him however I wish he said more in the movie. He was pretty quiet.
This film should appear on any list of good 70s crime movies, but its not in the same league as 7Ups, Bullit, French Connection, The Hot Rock, etc.