I was kind of astonished by how harsh this movie is. It was kind of housed in the prejudice section of my movie brain, one of those movies I just had this gut feeling I simply wouldn’t like at all, one of those movies that’s called a ‘classic’, yet it’s not a classic, it’s just old. I still pretty much feel that way about it – it’s no masterpiece, that’s for sure. But it is pretty way ahead of its time. I expect a lot of the things in this movie you wouldn’t be able to put in a movie today, even. Of course I’d heard the “Do you feel lucky, punk?” line many many times before, but I liked the way it’s used, repeated, altered, to bookend the screenplay very neatly. Kick-ass score by Lalo Schifrin, too.

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