This film features horrible 70s fashions, casual racism, portrays police brutality and corruption as knockabout fun, is egregiously sexist, and is often held up as one of the very worst examples of homophobia in film. None of this is defensible, and yet, I love this movie. It features no less than three car chases, has endlessly quotable dialogue "it's helmet time" "the pliers! Not the pliers!", and two terrific lead performances by James Caan and Alan Arkin