"The Patriot" begins with a Latin American dictator (Thomas Gomez)having a meeting with a member of the Syndicate. It seems he's willing to pay a fortune to have a dissident, Emilio Cruz (Gilbert Roland), kidnapped and returned. This is because Cruz publishes a newspaper denouncing the regime...and the exalted leader wants to make an example of him. Can the FBI thwart this kidnapping?
This is a very tense and good episode of "The F.B.I.". It's not perfect. As I have mentioned before, the show was shot around Los Angeles and the setting is supposed to be Chicago for this particular episode....and the crew didn't do a very good job of hiding the palm trees nor hills around L.A. (Chicago, by the way, is quite flat). But I tend to look past this. What I did find a bit more bothersome were twice in the film when the mob called folks and began extorting them, BOTH times a cop was standing almost next to them and neither man told the police about the threats...which I found a bit unlikely. Still, the acting is good, the tension is high and it's well worth seeing.
This is a very tense and good episode of "The F.B.I.". It's not perfect. As I have mentioned before, the show was shot around Los Angeles and the setting is supposed to be Chicago for this particular episode....and the crew didn't do a very good job of hiding the palm trees nor hills around L.A. (Chicago, by the way, is quite flat). But I tend to look past this. What I did find a bit more bothersome were twice in the film when the mob called folks and began extorting them, BOTH times a cop was standing almost next to them and neither man told the police about the threats...which I found a bit unlikely. Still, the acting is good, the tension is high and it's well worth seeing.
