City Heat - Der Bulle und der Schnüffler

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds are constantly nudging each other, but at the same time complementing and working together in the finale... Well, it was probably supposed to happen with the comedy and crime components of the film, but it didn’t. It is as if opening scene is, without exaggeration, from Terence Hill and Bud Spencer's film (and I'm a little put off by it), followed by a lighthearted classic detective gangster film with witty monologues and dialogues, which then degenerates into a massive shootout in the street (the finale was super), continues with another gunfight in a car shop (the latter was rather bizarre for many reasons) and it all ends in a brothel where one of the protagonists is running around in a wolf costume disguised as a grandmother (and thankfully it's Burt Reynolds). If the film had chosen only one - any - genre and was not so disordered, or if it had managed to reconcile them miraculously, it could have been much more fun. (20.12.2020)

Even after the long time which has passed since I first saw the film, it’s still as entertaining. Clint Eastwood plays Dirty Harry again, though he goes by Speer this time, and the tic in his right eye is on point. Since Speer is the cautious one, it’s Burt Reynolds who has to be the energetic one. He may not have any interesting tics, but he’s a whirlwind of one-liners. The two characters in connection with the theme of organized crime always crack me up. (22.07.2017)