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Name: Sharky's Machine
Released: 1981-12-18
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman

Sharky's Machine

R
1h 59m
1981

83%

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Burt Reynolds stars in and directs this hard-hitting story of an undercover cop who's busted down to vice squad. Instead of quietly accepting the demotion, he trains his rag-tag department of demoralized officers into a fearsome crime-fighting machine.

Director:

Burt Reynolds

Producer:

Hank Moonjean

Writer:

Gerald DiPego, William Diehl

Cast:

Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, Richard Libertini, Rachel Ward

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

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David Nusair

...the movie progresses into a padded-out and mostly tedious midsection...

Overall, Sharky's Machine manages to get enough good stuff onto the screen to suggest that Reynolds is at least a competent director but undoes most of its good effects long before it reaches its sordid climax.

Unfortunately, Reynolds the director is as uncertain about the tone of the picture as Reynolds the star is about his screen persona

Reynolds was coasting at this point of his career, with zero risk-taking it ends up as a soulless, below-average movie.

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