Dave Costello

The French Connection is best known for its car chase scene, but this would be a great cop movie without it. With it, it becomes the greatest. The plot is intriguing. The setting is gritty and cold. There is almost a hopeless feeling throughout it. Hackman is superb, Ahab-like is his obsession to arrest the drug dealers. It is exciting and fascinating to watch the malaise of the early 70s in NYC. This had to be filmed on location. Would not work anywhere else. Please, watch this movie.