Across 110th Street
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Movie Reviews of Across 110th Street
Movie Review: Great Soundtrack
Summary: 3 Stars
The best thing about Across 110th Street is the music with Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson teaming up on the excellent soundtrack. The movie has a decent feel to it as far as cop dramas went during that time, but there were much better movies such as Gordon Parks' Shaft and Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night. Still, it is fun to watch if for nothing more than Yaphet Kotto, who would later play the precinct captain in Homicide, a long way from the blaxploitation films of the 70's.Movie Review: A real sleeper.
Summary: 3 Stars
Extremely violent film concerning gang warfare between the mafia and their black counterparts. Entire cast is very good, as are the action scenes.Movie Review: lacking movie
Summary: 3 Stars
this movie has a nice story but lacks action. It starts out with it, then the action declines.Movie Review: Actually a blend of blaxploitation and crime drama
Summary: 2 Stars
You'd have to be blind not to miss the Blaxploitation influence here. Reading the other reviews it seems I am not alone in this department. Even if you don't look like that as other states the performances are predictable and the movie doesn't seem to have any surprises.
Anthony Quinn and Yaphette are mirror images of Sidney Poitier's character and Rod Steiger in "Heat Of The Night".
Quinn basically plays a racist police named Capt. Mattelli
whose about as racist as they come beating up any black person in his path, unfortunately no one in this film gives him an equal amount of beatings. You think this is new? As mentioned it is not and white racist character were often the main characters in Blaxploitation movies.
Kotto as Lt. Pope who is working the case with him involving stolen loot of the mafia from a couple of black criminals.
Many of the characters in the movie are truly revolting black and white. Again you can equate this as one dimensional evident in most crime drama movies or Blaxploitation flicks. Mattelli isn't the only racist cop, and in fact he's a hypocrite racist who is taking money from a black mafia kingpin..
There are other racist and corrupt white cops , and for a twist we have some black pimps and dealers who sell out their black partners
in crime. It doesn't take a genius to see how this movie will end. Is it enjoyable? Certainly if you are into these type of movies and are willing to eliminate certain expectations.
I do get a kick of Lt. Pope slamming the Captain down calling him a racist sob (which he is) and the Captain having the gall to change the subject: "You want my job, don't you!!!" Not really he just wants you to stop being a white beatnik racist.
Anyhow only for true movie collectors of this type of cinema.