McQ
McQ
PG | 04 January 1974 (USA)
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Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.

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ThiefHott

Too much of everything

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Mandeep Tyson

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Deanna

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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Jerrie

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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utgard14

Regretting turning down Dirty Harry a few years earlier, John Wayne tries to make his own "cop who plays by his own rules" movie with this Swingin' Seventies thriller directed by John Sturges. Wayne plays McQ, a Firebird-driving tough-as-nails detective who investigates the killing of his friend and uncovers corruption in the police department. It's a part that would be a better fit for a younger man, but the same could be said for many of Duke's later film roles. He does a fine job with what the script gives him, which isn't much. He's backed up by a solid cast, most of whom are going through the motions. Colleen Dewhurst is a standout in her small role as a junkie bartender Duke sleeps with. The film owes a little to the Steve McQueen classic Bullitt. One can't help but wonder how much of that was intentional, given the name of the title character here. The action scenes are decent but the mystery elements are limp. It's dated, cheesy, and sometimes fun but never quite as much fun as you want it to be. It also goes on too long for its own good. Worth a look for fans of the Duke but it'll probably bore most viewers.

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MrOllie

I have watched this film three times and have always found it entertaining. John Wayne was perhaps slightly too old for the part, however, I thought he did a pretty good job as the Dirty Harry type cop who wants to know why is partner was killed. There are shootings and car chases along with warnings by his immediate boss (played by Eddie Albert)to curb his unconventional ways of policing. Of course, The Duke takes no notice and carries on his investigations in his own style. As many reviewers have stated, a stand out scene features Colleen Dewhurst as a somewhat burnt out ex-girlfriend of his partner. For me, it was an enjoyable and entertaining film.

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GUENOT PHILIPPE

I know this film since four decades now, and believe it or not, but I only realize now that the true nature of it. I mean the most known western actor who works with one of the most famous western director for the fist time after all these years, and for making: guess what...A CRIME MOVIE !!!Is not this incredible?Yes, John Wayne will always remain the most popular western actor in movie history. And every movie buff knows how much John Sturges is also a great western maker: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, GUNFIGHT AT OK CORRALL, LAST TRAIN FROM GUNHILL, BACKLASH, HOUR OF THE GUN, LAW AND JACK WADE... And the two did not work together, but finally met at only a few years from their retirement for both of them. And to make NOT A WESTERN but a crime flick. A good one indeed. Sorry if I repeat myself, but I still can't believe it...Even after forty years. They made this film, the year John Ford died...Hmmm.

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jjnxn-1

Not a great movie but a good one. The Duke is too old for his part, he was much better served by the following year's Brannigan, but he gruffs his way through. The story is standard and not too difficult to figure out but if you are a fan of crime movies this is an acceptable time filler. Where it fails is in the wasting of three talented actresses Diana Muldaur, underused, Colleen Dewhurst, although she comes across the most strongly it is more the power of her personality and presence than anything she's given to work with in a throwaway part, and Julie Adams, she and Wayne have a good rapport in their one scene and you have a feeling there is more to their story but then she is gone from the film.

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