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- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 5 m
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 5 m
Summary In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
Directed By: Daniel Petrie
Written By: Heywood Gould, Thomas Mulhearn, Pete Tessitore
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 5 m
- 1981
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 5 m
Fort Apache the Bronx
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Summary In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
Directed By: Daniel Petrie
Written By: Heywood Gould, Thomas Mulhearn, Pete Tessitore
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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82% Mixed
9 Reviews
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9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
49
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
82% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A tough-talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful, acted by Paul Newman and a huge cast with the kind of conviction that can't be ignored.
While the movie has some good sequences, as a whole it never seems to come together - the pacing is all off.
Fort Apache, The Bronx, set primarily in a precinct house, is the S & M Barney Miller... One comes away from the film exhausted, both by the excess of incident
in the script and by the reality in which the excess is so obviously
grounded. [7 Feb 1981]
Edward Asner is good as the tough cop who takes over the besieged precinct, Aiello is appropriately sleazy, but Newman is still left to carry this rather predictable film wholly on his shoulders. The script is sharp and witty, but there's no central theme to hold it all together.
Driving relentlessly to make points that are almost pointless, Fort Apache The Bronx is a very patchy picture, strong on dialog and acting and exceedingly weak on story.
What they came out with is the most complete collection of cop-movie clichés since John Wayne played a Chicago cop in “McQ”.
At best, the filmmakers are guilty of wholesale confusion. For lamentable example, the plot degenerates into a hopeless tangle of loose threads and discarded hooks, beginning with the initial vicious teaser, which identifies Pam Grier as a drug-crazed prostitute who guns down a pair of unwary young patrolmen in their squad car. [7 Feb 1981, p.C1]
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