Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
The screenplay is so predictable in situation and so arch in its supposedly tough, blunt, wise talk that it turns into a joke told by someone with no sense of humor.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
Siegel knows what he wants and gets it.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
Eastwood's performance as the flawed, headstrong superman has been terribly underrated, but he brings to the part of Coogan a sure knowledge of the man's obvious strengths and not so obvious failings.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Story is of the clash between sophisticated law enforcement and frontier-style simplistics, which is perhaps one of the major internal American problems.
– ,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Even Siegel's somehow off-centre treatment of New York hippiedom is intriguingly wry.