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To Live and Die in L.A.
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows to stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who murdered his partner.
19 February 1952, New York City, New York, USA
9 November 1955, Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 November 1933, San Francisco, California, USA
19 October 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1947, Savannah, Georgia, USA
26 January 1948, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 17, 2010
[William] Friedkin creates a jittery atmosphere of adrenaline and corruption and danger...
October 08, 2005
William Friedkin returned to form with this tough, stylish and gutsy crime thriller enhanced by one of the great soundtracks of the 1980s.
July 31, 2012
The film is cheesy as hell but it is a ton of fun for someone who remembered how this passed as uber-edgy back in the day.
December 10, 2003
There's not much substance here, but the film ... showcases a grabber of a car chase that compares favorably with the classic one from Friedkin's The French Connection.
February 22, 2011
A profoundly ambivalent motion picture... completely upends every convention of its hidebound genre without even seeming to notice that it has done so.
January 13, 2004
To Live and Die in L.A. is undeniably very well made - from the performances to the more technical aspects - but the bottom line is, it's just not all that compelling.
June 24, 2006
Friedkin plays it as brutal and cynical as he ever did with The French Connection...
September 15, 2007
Friedkin's 1985 film To Live and Die in L.A. may be one of his very best, though it did not reach the level of acclaim and support of his earlier films.
March 25, 2011
The action thrives on overkill.
May 20, 2003
On its own terms, it's a considerable success, though it's a film that sacrifices everything in the interests of style.
October 29, 2008
Engrossing and diverting enough on a moment-to-moment basis but is overtooled.
January 01, 2000
The film isn't just about cops and robbers, but about two systems of doing business, and how one of the systems finds a way to change itself in order to defeat the other.