Electra Glide in Blue
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Movie Reviews of Electra Glide in Blue
Movie Review: Goofy Seventies Cop Film
Summary: 3 Stars
The freedom afforded young American directors in the seventies heralded some of the most adventurous and terrific films in the history of cinema. It also produced alot of self-indulgent claptrap. Unfortunately, "Electra Glide in Blue" falls more in the latter category than the former. Director James William Guercio would like to invoke comparisons to John Ford(hence, the Monument Valley locales) and "Easy Rider". Instead his film seems like a wacky episode of "CHiPs". I have nothing against a filmmaker who tries to pace his film deliberately. Guercio's direction, however, feels hamhanded and labored. Not that he's helped by a script that contains any number of preposterous scenes. One that comes to my mind is the long one involving a barmaid (Jeannine Riley) who dresses down a detective(Mitchell Ryan) for his inadequacies. The film is redeemed by some terrific acting by Robert Blake as the highway patrolman who has big dreams that are undermined by his integrity, Billy "Green" Bush as a fellow patrolman who isn't working with a full deck, Elisha Cook as a mentally challenged man, and Royal Dano as the Coroner. It goes without saying that Conrad Hall offers up terrific camerawork. Look close for a young Nick Nolte as an extra in the commune scene.Movie Review: But, I liked it
Summary: 3 Stars
All in all it's not a great movie. I found the plot somewhat convoluted. The acting is awful at times. Most of the main characters are people I would not associate with but John Wintergreen (a young Robert Blake) was all right. He had an overdeveloped sense of fairness, right and wrong that would eventually do him in. The movie has a quirky personality. At times it's intentionally funny but some of the great scenes are when it's unintentionally funny. I liked the background music. More than a few times it was perfectly suited as background for the associated scene. The chase scenes were well done, at times overdone. The raw, seedy side of the Southwest was the perfect backdrop for this movie. I could almost smell the stale cigarette smoke, beer and urine. The scenery was at times Kodak perfect. Twenty-five years ago I really liked the last song - the one that plays over the credits. Today, I find it preachy and very 60's. I'm surprised the movie has not achieved cult status.Movie Review: Up and then Down
Summary: 3 Stars
The first hour of the film is spot-on, totally worthy of its "minor cult classic" status. Unfortunately, the second half of the film is a bit of a let-down, for various reasons, including a rather preposterous resolution of the crime -and perp (excluding, of course, the oft-discussed final five minutes, which are as good as any in the film).
As a murder mystery (which it is only in part) it starts out well,but then doesn't seem to know what to do with itself (unlike, for instance,"Bullit" a film that has an urban setting but an equally fascinating lead performance/character)
But Robert Blake's acting is excellent and the cinematography is fully appreciated, especially on wide-screen DVD.
Movie Review: Bob Zemco
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw this movie as a kid and later when it was released on VHS picked up a copy of it. The movie is visually impressive and its style is more like what you would see years later in music videos. Robert Blake is excellent in this quirky yet dark story about a pint sized motorcycle cop whose ambition sees him investigating a murder case. Hippies, pigs, nymphos and detectives with erectile dysfunction are abound.
I liked the movie and just remember it as being something different and not what you normally expected at the time.
Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd read good stuff about this film, and it just wasn't very good. There was way too much overacting, and the main character was a friggin' dork. Why am I supposed to root for some highway patrol cop with a Napoleon complex? The ending was the only slightly satisfying aspect of it, and even then the blood looked fake. It was kinda funny seeing Peter Cetera as a hippie, though. For that I give it an extra star.