It doesn't get much more seventies and pointless than this action cop story with Charles Bronson as a cop reassigned to another city where he gets involved in a Mafia war. That's actually a decent enough topic for a film - the Bronson cop stuff feels awkwardly layered on top of it.
They would have been better off making Bronson one of the stone killers hired i.e. random assassins used to take on the mafia like Stuart Margolin - or had him be a former one. That would be interesting.
There's scenes like a woman at a hippy retreat hitting on Brosnan because she's never balled a cop which feel more like scenes from a Clint Eastwood movie.
The main interest of this is the support cast which includes actors like Norman Fell, John Ritter, Martin Balsam - though I could have done without Balsam's fugged-about-it Italian accent.
At the end there's a bunch of deliriously over the top shoot outs which are super silly but entertaining in their ridiculousness and that's what the movie should have been instead of the cop stuff.
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