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- 1987
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Summary The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
Directed By: Tom Mankiewicz
Written By: Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, Jack Webb, Tom Mankiewicz
- 1987
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1987
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Dragnet
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Summary The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
Directed By: Tom Mankiewicz
Written By: Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, Jack Webb, Tom Mankiewicz
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
62
47% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
53% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Famed script doctor Tom Mankiewicz, in his directorial debut, creates the required breakneck car chases, stunt tumbles, major crowd scenes and SWAT gunfire around Aykroyd and Hanks. We're essentially watching 48 Hours or Beverly Hills Cop, only with different funny people. Plus the script is a gold mine of one-liners penned by Aykroyd, Mankiewicz and ex-Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel.
The film slips occasionally into 80s action-itis and can't resist a few conventional friendship lessons, but most of the time it's fresh, funny, and surprising.
It is great for an hour, good for about 25 minutes and then heads doggedly for the Standard 1980s High Tech Hollywood Ending, which means an expensive chase scene and a shootout.
Hanks is pleasant doing his standard playboy schtick. Aykroyd is even better, showing his ability for mimicry while revealing true feeling as an actor. He can't help it, though, that Friday's stridency grows tiresome. And that's Dragnet's main problem. As funny as the movie is, the excesses weigh it down the longer it runs. [26 June 1987, p.D1]
Director Tom Mankiewicz brings little innovation and no surprises to Dragnet. It simply doesn't come off, and the viewer will be left with an empty feeling, a vacuous notion that somehow the laugh scenes slipped by unnoticed. They were never really there.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
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