No one's favourite Sam Peckinpah film though like all movies from that director it has interest. James Caan and Robert Duvall really seem like mates at the beginning making Duvall's betrayal have real impact. That's the best bit of the film.
The rest consists of Caan's recovering, learning karate, going back into business, teaming up with Burt Young and Bo Hopkins, learning from Mako and a comely Thai girl (who I think married co writer Stirling Silliphant - she has a decent sized part for a Peckinpah film), clashing with Duvall again (who dies too quickly) then taking part in a slow motion, unconvincing, unexciting battle at on some boats in San Francisco Bay.
It's not an exciting film. It has two good performances from Caan and Duvall, is odd, a decent story that has any thrills sucked out of it. This film annoyed me after a while. It's even got lazy 70s scenes about how all governments are corrupt - like sitting next to some stoner at a party.
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