No innocent or humorous "Kojak, bang bang!" in this Toronto set thriller where Telly Savalas is witnessed pushing a woman onto a train track by Lynda Day George who was in the front car. Of course he turns out to be a cop, assigned to the case along with Mike Farrell, and he arranges to kidnap the troubled George's son so he can keep her in line. He claims the woman was blackmailing him and wouldn't stop so he had no choice, but an accident has George thinking that he's been killed. Of course that's not true so there's a treck all over the city as George desperately tries to keep from being captured by him.
This certainly is action-packed and non-stop from beginning to end, and fortunately, it's just over 70 minutes. George is a bit of a neurotic mess so it's easy for Savalas to make her look naughtier by planting heroine in her apartment. When she speaks to the department heads, they seem to think that she's got a vivid imagination but behind the scenes, Ferrell begins to wonder if she could be correct.
So she's got someone from the police force out to get her and one on her side, and that makes this really predictable. But, being allegedly filmed on location in Toronto, this benefits from location scenery, even though it didn't go to places in the city that I was familiar with. The script isn't exactly strong even though it's a dire situation, but the fact that it ends up being a race against time does add a bit of excitement to it.
This certainly is action-packed and non-stop from beginning to end, and fortunately, it's just over 70 minutes. George is a bit of a neurotic mess so it's easy for Savalas to make her look naughtier by planting heroine in her apartment. When she speaks to the department heads, they seem to think that she's got a vivid imagination but behind the scenes, Ferrell begins to wonder if she could be correct.
So she's got someone from the police force out to get her and one on her side, and that makes this really predictable. But, being allegedly filmed on location in Toronto, this benefits from location scenery, even though it didn't go to places in the city that I was familiar with. The script isn't exactly strong even though it's a dire situation, but the fact that it ends up being a race against time does add a bit of excitement to it.