Busting

MOVIE #1,097 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.07.23 • VOLUME LI • Well, after I relatively long run of solid to good/great TRUE RANDOM choices, we got a definite meh one here, folks. There are some fun parts (the open market shootout and hospital/ambulance chase sequence) and some LoL random things (why is there an unlit cigarette dangling out of Robert Blake’s mouth the entire movie?) but too much shitty neo-noir dialogue and rote exposition bog it down. Haven’t really seen too much of Elliot Gould or Robert Blake in leading roles, though, so that was interesting. And it’s always good to see A+ character actors like Allen Garfield and Michael Lerner. Not quite a recommend from me but certainly not terrible.

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Busting is a 1974 American crime film directed by Peter Hyams in his theatrical directorial debut, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as Los Angeles police detectives. It was the main inspiration for the cop series Starsky & Hutch, which premiered in 1975 and, like this film, also featured Antonio Fargas. It was released on February 6, 1974.