1981 page 6 daily nebraskan tuesday, february 24, (G(SnlG(irSllDKRnDiG 3 Bronx movie attempts too much, achieves little Of course, By Pete Schmitz . - racist, sexist or homophobic. V77 O pj there are writers and directors who exploit the Fort Apache, The Bronx is a unique stereotypic imagery merely for purpose movie because it is hard to like, hate or feel of entertainment or titallation.

indifferent - about. z. m w :. t , . hi hi m bw-- . The film's biggest problem is that it tries Degrades minorities with Neil Simon's to be too many things: a social commen- This vvas the case a that de- tary, a buddy film, an adventure story, a Seems Like Old Times, movie fifties romance, an '80s romance, a black grades blacks, Indians and Mexican-American- s e comedy in the tradition of MA SH and by making them lazy and unapprecia-tiv- a vehicle for Paul Newman, who has not of Goldie I lawn's efforts to "help" homosexuals vvas had a hit in years. them. Just as bad for William Friedkan's Cruising With this MTlrCf- - movie out, Anita Bryant could stay at n home. The is not n ; But Fort Apache, Bronx, u o J review If exploitative. Furthermore, it has its mom- ents of intelligence and sensitivity. Director Daniel Pctrie (who did A Raisin In The Sun Based on some experiences of former and Resurrection) and writer Heywood South Bronx police officers Tom Mulhearn Gould, make it clear it is mainly the pour This and Pete Tessitore, and production's who are victimized by street crime. attempts at social realism are undermined factor puts their effort several notches far-fetch- by a contrived plot, ed events and above Death Wish (1974), a cheap piece of a trite character triad. As Patrolman trash that became a tract of what James Time-Lif- e Productions Murphy, Newman is the worn-ou- t, but hu- Monnacco calls "bourgeois vigilantism". Paul Newman a veteran New York officer who clashes with his com- - mane inconoclast. He shows his bosses no plays police Even though Petrie and Gould present a mander, Edward Asner, in Fort Apach ', the Bro tvc. respect, never uses a gun, leads citizens in bleak sociological landscape that offsets shouting matches against his own depart- book bureaucrat who tries to restore order to participate in their mutual admiration some of the dubious individual portraits, will call attention to the ment and uses clown therapy as a way of and discipline in the 4 1st Precinct. society. their film not getting criminals to surrender weapons. But for all of the movie's faults it is not problem of urban anomie. This is most Ken Wahl plays Corelli, Newman's Reads like a satire racist. Yes, it does show Hispanies, blacks apparent as it ends with a strange mixture across the young, brash and dashing partner who still Believe me, the press package for his and prostitutes doing many nasty tilings. of tones. While the camera pans has a lot to learn. If anyone in this project movie reads like a satire. But it also shows police officers and white corpse of a prostitute wrapped up in a rug is we see Newman deserving of our sympathy it is Wahl. As Despite Captain Connolly's presence, citizens doing many mean things too. among a heap of garbage, run Newman's buddy and partner, he must be a Murphy and Corelli continue to control Every group portrayed is treated harshly, and Wahl in the background as they Robert Red ford to his colleague. And be- crime as they tell a pimp, who is beating up but fairly. Unlike other exploitative shows, after another criminal with all their boyish cause of his Italian-America- n background, a prostitute, to "keep it off the streets." the unendearing aspects of the characters enthusiasm. he must be a John Travolta for his audi- These men also find time for romance. are explained through mountains of garb- Instead of instigating action for urban ences. Given this double burden, Wahl does Wahl dates an innocent Catholic girl (the age, pollution and despair. renewal, Fort Apache, The Bronx will most a respectable job even though he cannot '50s romance), and Newman falls in love In Woman's Fstate, Juliet Mitchell told likely inspire a television series with a tired rise above the constraints of his role(s). with a smart cookie of a nurse who ends up women that "the condition of our oppres- cop who cares, his young and impetuous To round out this dynamic duo, we dead from a heroin overdose (the '80s ro- sion conditions us." This is something partner and a dour supervisor. have Ed Asner who takes the part of mance). Even though the two men have every critic should remember before Fort Apache, The Bronx is now showing Captain Connolly, the grumpy, by-th- e- girlfriends, they still take enough time out launching a diatribe on films which ap,tar at the Plaza 4 Theater. 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