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- 1975
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h
- 1975
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h
Summary At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Steve Shagan
- 1975
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h
- 1975
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h
Hustle
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Summary At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Steve Shagan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
77
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Hustle is a great modern love story disguised as a neo-noir police procedural.
Remarkable contemporary film noir that cuts the dirt and corruption of Los Angeles with a strain of allusions to (and, in the case of Reynolds' cop, illusions of) European romance.
Hustle is one of the few examples of true modern film noir. But director and screenwriter cannot resolve their different approaches. The script's humanistic, if depressing, angle gets battered by Aldrich's approach. An interesting mixed bag.
It's a movie about characters, primarily. It cares more about getting inside these people than it does about solving its crime.
The sinister mise-en-scene is compromised only by a few overripe lines from screenwriter Steve Shagan, and Reynolds reveals himself as an actor of depth and complexity.
The film’s drawbacks are simply a lack of some restraint, since otherwise all the elements are present for a sensational, hardhitting human story.
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