One of the most captivating crime dramas of the 21st century, "Justified" electrified audiences with Leonard's customary grit and compelling crime stories punctuated by appropriately noir-ish action and tongue-in-cheek humor. Set in the backwoods of Kentucky, the series sees the sharp-shooting lawman Givens up against everyone from counterfeiters and escaped convicts to drug kingpins and the Dixie Mafia. Williams is the most menacing as a dreadlocked ex-con, gone from "Mod Squad" to "Slob Squad." - Rita Kempley.With the talents of Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins in the lead roles, the television adaptation is an impeccable mix of police procedural, thrilling neo-Western action, and snarky humor. Scheider is solid as the adventure capitalist, and Glover, who won an Emmy for his role as an AIDs patient in TV's "An Early Frost," is your basic creepy crackpot.
The cast is slumming, but enjoying it, with Ann-Margret as the cheated wife, and the comely Vanity as part of the comely scenery. But all the slime and grime can't camouflage the sameness of this standard, divide-and-conquer story. Since it's set against a backdrop of cheap sex shops and strip joints, Frankenheimer is happy as a pig in a dumpster.
The Bronson of the boardroom takes his corporate cunning into the streets, and shows them who's boss.ĭirector John Frankenheimer of "The French Connection II" never misses a chance to exploit sex or violence in this taut, tacky, t&a adaptation of an Elmore Leonard best-seller. The killers use Scheider's own gun, but this CEO still doesn't cave in to these brutal bozos. When Scheider, a self-made man, refuses to give in to the extortionists, he is forced to watch a snuff video featuring the murder of his mistress. Just as his wife's political career takes off, Scheider is videotaped in delicto flagrante and blackmailed by a vicious gang of porn peddlers, led by Glover.
This gruesome tale of greed and extortion, which costars Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover and Clarence Williams III, is the latest thriller from gore-getters Golan and Globus. "52PICK-UP is "Death Wish" for yuppies, with Roy Scheider as a tough-minded businessman who neglects to install a burglar alarm and thus finds himself in mortal combat with an evil MBA from Northwestern.
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