Director: Sidney Lumet
I found out about Prince of the City when Sidney Lumet died earlier this year; it's the kind of movie I probably never would have stumbled onto myself. While it is an excellent movie, it really has no business being almost 3 hours long - had Lumet been able to cut this down to 140 minutes, he might've had an excellent film here. As it stands, his 2nd film about police corruption can only suffer by comparisons to Serpico, as it covers many of the same themes.
The acting in the film is Lumet-y - stay away if you don't like overemotive shouting. Still, the cast is a who's who of character actors - you'll spend half the movie being like 'oh, it's that guy/girl'. Whoever scouted locations for Lumet in the 70s was brilliant, as this film rivals Serpico and The French Connection for best use of 70s New York City.
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