Freebie and the Bean Reviews

1974

Rated:
60
from 56 members

Great 70s buddy cop film featuring mind boggling car chases. From the director of Stuntman. Read more

Starring	James Caan, Alan Arkin, Loretta Swift, Alex Rocco
Director	Richard Rush
Genres	Action/Adventure

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Critics' reviews (3) of Freebie and the Bean
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An early variation on the buddy cops routine that is dominated by a series of spectacular car crashes as San Francisco cops James Caan and Alan Arkin pursue mobster Jack Kruschen. Hugely tasteless (there are a flurry of racist jokes from Caan about Arkin's Mexican origins), this is a film where most of the characters are treated with contempt, but director Richard Rush puts so much energetic inventiveness into the turbulence you're almost convinced he doesn't mean it.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Violent comedy melodrama with a high mortality rate, amoral outlook, and the usual seventies reliance on incoherent plot, bumbled dialogue and excessive background noise. Occasionally funny all the same.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
Not the latest Disney, as the title implies, but yet another cop movie, a strangely callous exercise that divides its... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Briiliant acting and some awsomes stunts for the year

Saw this on late night T.V and thought a thirty year old movie would put me to sleep, but this is almost lethal wepon without the violence. A proper buddy buddy movie, and I was surprised at the amount of car stunts and chases, for an older movie. The comedy and banter were very amusing and the the actors were obviously having a ball. Definatly a forerunner to thise 80's buddy movies.
- - RUSSELL WINTLE from gloucester
  - Posted 26 Feb 2006 12:26

2 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Briiliant acting and some awsomes stunts for the year

Saw this on late night T.V and thought a thirty year old movie would put me to sleep, but this is almost lethal wepon without the violence. A proper buddy buddy movie, and I was surprised at the amount of car stunts and chases, for an older movie. The comedy and banter were very amusing and the the actors were obviously having a ball. Definatly a forerunner to thise 80's buddy movies.
- - RUSSELL WINTLE from gloucester
  - Posted 26 Feb 2006 12:26

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Critics' reviews (3)
An early variation on the buddy cops routine that is dominated by a series of spectacular car crashes as San Francisco cops James Caan and Alan Arkin pursue mobster Jack Kruschen. Hugely tasteless (there are a flurry of racist jokes from Caan about Arkin's Mexican origins), this is a film where most of the characters are treated with contempt, but director Richard Rush puts so much energetic inventiveness into the turbulence you're almost convinced he doesn't mean it.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Violent comedy melodrama with a high mortality rate, amoral outlook, and the usual seventies reliance on incoherent plot, bumbled dialogue and excessive background noise. Occasionally funny all the same.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
Not the latest Disney, as the title implies, but yet another cop movie, a strangely callous exercise that divides its... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008