In this version we are made to feel a little sympathic towards Doyle. I believe it was because they realize hey, we can't root for Doyle. He is no better than the drug pushers. A menace.
The villian gets Doyle pitifully hooked to drugs and Doyle seems a little nicer and more like cop doing his job and less a nazi than in the orignal.
Well, on the one hand, we have tons of drugs flowing into the United States of America to feed the pathetic, sick addiction of mostly underclass citizens, causing them to steal, mug, murder, spread their legs, and die, in order to feed their addictions...in 1975.
On the other, we have a hard-nosed cop that really screws up and kills one fellow Police Officer in the heat of a chase.
That was 30 years ago.
I don't see much difference between today and what I've described in my first paragraph. Do you? Perhaps too many bleeding heart liberals infesting the mix have made life much, much easier for the dealers to operate, contributed to unparalleled death rates & no shortage of sleazy "judgements".
Menace? Nazi? Come on.
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Well, I would say that Doyle's incompetence and ignorance are key to his character. He is, after all, an "antihero" as opposed to a traditional screen hero.
shareI think Doyle has one way of handling things and that's giving 110%. If the situation calls for another approach, he is ineffective, even dangerous. It seemed to be his rep; the other cops constantly mentioned this in the first picture.
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