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      McQ

      PG 1974 1h 56m Crime Drama List
      40% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 56% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score A police officer unearths departmental corruption when he learns his murdered partner was one of many crooked cops. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 16 Buy Now

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      William R. P Same old swaggering blowhard. Tired Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/24 Full Review Shadowman4710 A rare John Wayne cop thriller, this is actually considerably better than it sounds. Wayne was miscast as a Seattle police Lieutenant investigating the murder of his partner and a couple of other SPD officers. Wayne was way too old for this part (he was in his 70's at the time) and the role would have been better if say, Robert Mitchum had played the role but otherwise it's a clever story about drug dealers and cops in early 70's Seattle. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A rather standard police actioner from the 1970's, with John Wayne playing a policeman who is angered when his best friend on the police force is murdered (not knowing at the time the friend was corrupt), and quits the force when his superiors refuse to let him go after the drug dealers he believes responsible. The story was okay, and the villains certainly were good, but John Wayne was in his sixties and obviously too old for the role. A younger star could and should have been put into Wayne's role. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member The hero lives on a classic yacht, drives a Brewster Green Pontiac Trans Am, carries a Browning Hi-Power and a silenced Ingram. How cool can you get? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member A decent John Wayne flick Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Gritty police action as a long-serving police detective handing in his badge to investigate his former partner's murder and police connections to drug dealers. One of John Wayne's last films. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael New Yorker McQ is like a dull fifties movie. Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Judith Crist New York Magazine/Vulture There are killings aplenty fore and aft, car chases galore, lots of non-actors to match Wayne; lots of actors to be wasted... lots of flashy photography of Seattle to glaze the eye, and marble-mouthed dialogue to stultify the brain. Oct 2, 2019 Full Review Dick Lochte Los Angeles Free Press John Wayne, at 65, is nothing less than a national monument. And he deserves better upkeep and attention than his latest film, McQ, provides. Dec 16, 2019 Full Review Matt Brunson Creative Loafing It's more a rumor than cold, hard fact that Wayne was offered the role of Dirty Harry and passed on it. At any rate, the Duke played his own version of Inspector Harry Callahan in this agreeable if stridently unexceptional film. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 18, 2016 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com The Duke, desperate to maintain his hold with viewers, tries to step into the Dirty harry territory with this disappointing crimer. Rated: C Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Uma triste ironia do Cinema que a nica colaborao entre Sturges e Wayne tenha sido neste policial urbano medocre que j nasceu anacrnico. Rated: 2/5 Jun 9, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A police officer unearths departmental corruption when he learns his murdered partner was one of many crooked cops.
      Director
      John Sturges
      Screenwriter
      Lawrence Roman
      Production Co
      Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 1, 2009
      Runtime
      1h 56m
      Sound Mix
      Stereo
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