Sat, September 17, 2022
It’s an unexpected character for Grodin, but you can see his style peeking through. Its central caper turns a bit too serious, and the shifts between comedy and intrigue are uneven. I wish they’d let him start out more acerbic—it would play to his strengths, and also give the character more of an arc as Fawcett’s influence softens him. All in all, it falls well short of its potential, and would be entirely unredeemable without Grodin… but the ‘70s gave us plenty of worse films.
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