The Seven-Ups 1973 Review

The Seven-Ups 1973  — 

It's not bad enough to laugh at, and only has about five minutes I'd actually reccomend you might watch.  That 5 minutes is a decent car chase sequence.   The three minute trailer for the movie that tried to sell the movie as something more exciting than The French Connection might tempt you to seek this one out.     Don't.

The plot has to do with an elite group of New York City Dectectives who try to get revenge when a colleague is killed.  The name refers to how the cops attempt to bust criminals who will be put in jail for 7 years of more... 7 ups... get it?   

The plot is loose and the series of events sloppy and un-involving.  The script is a mess, the direction pretty poor and the editing is sloppy.    Tony LoBianco has a good tough guy presence, but the usually reliable  Roy Scheider is pretty bad, over-acting in one scene and having no charisma in another.   It was rated PG when it was first released and so you don't get the kind of exploitation elements, nudity, gore, language that might make it slightly more interesting.

Skip this one.    The director was one of the producers of The French Connection.

The Seven Ups   1973  Directed by Phil D'Antoni