Other than some vintage New York City locations and Dyan Cannon's fantastic apartment that overlooks downtown Manhattan, this is a completely forgettable action film. It is described as a comedy, but I didn't laugh once. In fact, I groaned most of the time. It deals with the titled detective, played by Burt Reynolds, searching for stolen diamonds that resulted in a brutal murder where a man and a woman are literally burned to death in the opening scene when a hose containing fire pours into their apartment. That is just the beginning of the violence. Overall, it is an extremely unpleasant film.
Reynolds is hired to try and find the diamonds, works with Dyan Cannon in a case involving her brother, and spends a few minutes feeding Morris the Cat. This is predictable in every way. Reynolds keeps getting himself in jams but you just know that somehow at the last minute, he's going to get out of it in a way that is ridiculous. He may have been the top box office star of the 1970s, but a lot of his films do not hold up nearly 50 years later. This film has some offensive moments where he ogles some buxom beauties and basically leaves a dizzy pick up in his apartment, ordering her to be out by noon. Cannon does call him a pervert at one moment, but you know that he's going to end up getting her on to his pool table.
Reynolds is hired to try and find the diamonds, works with Dyan Cannon in a case involving her brother, and spends a few minutes feeding Morris the Cat. This is predictable in every way. Reynolds keeps getting himself in jams but you just know that somehow at the last minute, he's going to get out of it in a way that is ridiculous. He may have been the top box office star of the 1970s, but a lot of his films do not hold up nearly 50 years later. This film has some offensive moments where he ogles some buxom beauties and basically leaves a dizzy pick up in his apartment, ordering her to be out by noon. Cannon does call him a pervert at one moment, but you know that he's going to end up getting her on to his pool table.