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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Most excellent entertainment on all levels. If you love cop stories, action, inside track dialog, mobsters and fast pace thrills and suspense then get to watching this classic right away. You will be very glad it is a long movie as well and not wanting it to end when it does another great sign of a good movie. The characters own their roles and that helps capture the viewer and hold them glued to the screen. Another great test of a good movie is if it has memorable scenes. I have seen this movie and have lost count and will continue to see it periodically. It just has an appeal that goes to work as a good story and makes it that way every time you view it. The music is good and fits the movie theme well. Lots of dilemma in this movie as in conflict. Some of the choices having to be made are on the gut level and we wish not to have to travel this way ourselves. Instead, we watch to see how Detective Daniel Ciello handles it and ask "would we do the same'? Great characters and good balance of cops, district attorneys and power in both worlds. If the DA gets the goods on you, you are toast is well-acted out here yet the main character states quite well that without cops and the risks they take whatever they are there would be no protection past them. In other words you need us so don't kill us off when you catch us doing wrong. Both sides of that coin are presented quite well. In one climatic scene, a group of prosecutors, I mean some pretty powerful guys are all in a room discussing the fate of Detective Ciello. This is one of the most believable scenes to be found and then some too. You can taste the anguish, morale arguments and character above and beyond dynamics as this group not only articulates it well but acts it out too. Very impressive. Imagine if your fate was tied up in that room. Which way would it fall for you? Prince of the City. You can be this in any profession if you are that good.

One of the greatest English language 'cop' dramas ever made. Lumet and Williams take us along a path where almost everyone one might trust is dirty, the fantasy of the 'war on drugs' is forced to confront the reality of the streets and everyday life, and the closest bonds imaginable between men are fractured by a judicial system that is often itself corrupt and impossible to trust.Over the years much has been said about this film and its lack of recognition, especially in light of only one academy award nomination and no wins. I can't speak to why that happened, but I can say that a greater set of awards earned is the almost universal recognition of this movie as a truly relevant and brilliant statement still fresh over time.So many movies from 30 plus years ago are clearly 'showing their age'. Techniques used, scripts employed, acting, even costumes nail most films from c. 1981 to a particular time frame. Viewers must make allowances for the age, a real negative to enjoyment. Not so, Prince of the City. It is as crisp and compelling now as it was when first released. The only real difference between it and contemporary dramas is the ability of people to now enjoy it as a masterpiece and a reference to a great age of directors like Lumet, instead of a 'first run'.Lumet used a huge supporting cast. How amazing is it that so many near perfect performances are offered by actors that either were never heard of again or slipped into a careers that aren't worth mentioning? To me, that is a little bit of proof of the crazy magic of Prince of the City. For some reason so many people came together and jelled into an ensemble that for 167 minutes can still help us suspend time as we live the story with them. Certainly, the reason has to be the masterful hand of Lumet.If you haven't seen Prince of the City but enjoy this genre of film then please see it soon. It's long, so give yourself the required time to enjoy it. Extra points to you, if you watch it with one or more friends that not only enjoys 'cop' dramas but also enjoys great direction, smooth acting, and like to discuss film making in general. You will find great joy not only in the movie but in the conversations it will inspire. No doubt two threads of your conversation will emerge: where can I get more Lumet movies and why didn't Treat get more recognition for his work. Question one is easy to answer, check out IMDb. Number two is a question film buffs have been asking for over 30 years without satisfaction.

****warning spoilers ahead ****This is a flawless movie. A tear-jerker for men. Real men. About integrity and its cost. How people that tries to do the right thing are punished, and how hypocrites are the only ones getting out of it unharmed. It's the same old story of the Scorpio and the frog. (the prosecutors being the Scorpio in this example).Etiher you come totally clean or you lie every step of the way. This movie shows that what's even more important than choosing to be clean or dirty, is the choosing to be consequent. To stick with what you are no matter what. Even if its not who you really are. Once you have made your choice there is no turning back. If you are going to judge bad guys you will have to be able to do the same with yourself and the ones closest to you. Watching a well intentioned but naive Ciello having to destroy the lives of everybody he knows and loves the most, is a sad, honorable and at the same time bittersweet journey. But along the way the honor gets lost in the overwhelming suffering. And no honor in the world can cure that. To me the morality of the tale is brave in its inmorality; It's not worth it. You don't have to be selfish or bad to consider that it's more important to save human beings of flesh and blood than to uphold a system that still even without your testimony is being compromised every day. Maybe that's why this movie couldn't get more recognition Oscar-wise. It's too morally daring. And you can't reward a movie that basically says that sometimes lying is the right thing to do. At least that was my interpretation of it. The last scene sort of tells me: this was what he got out of it. It wasn't worth it. The best of its kind. "Insider" with Russel Crowe /Al Pacino tried to do something similar, but never came close to this. So intelligent, intriguing and moving. Bravo.

Prince of The City - Sidney Lumet's overlong melodrama about a cop who turns informant is out on DVD.This 1981 Big Apple corruption flick features great performances by Jerry Orbach and Bob Balaban- but focuses around Treat Williams.The first third of the movie features most of the action-including a heart-breaking sequence where Treat helps a snitch score drugs(look for a cameo by a young Cynthia Nixon) and an action packed big score with his squad.But doom is looming in the air- hell the sound design in the first scene leaves no mistake that foreboding and bad tidings are in the offing. I have not seen this flick since it ran on TV in the 80s.The agonizing last 2 thirds of the movie is a mix of speeches and screaming about lies,morals and trust and it is an unrelenting parade of mental hopscotch as the protagonist tries to to protect his friend's from the long arm of the law and his testimony.The DVD has a decent featurette about the movie and the book and has the person the movie is based on.A good movie is lurking in this package- too bad the editor sabotaged the deal with leaving almost everything in(167 minutes). C+