W-A-A-A-Y Overrated!
C'mon, people - a "7.4" for this movie??!
I had never seen this movie and had great hopes for it after reading some of the imdb reader reviews.
It started off well enough, but I was going to cut it some slack anyway, given that it was the 70's and it had a low budget.
Austin Stoker did a credible job in the lead, and was professional throughout, given what he had to work with. But some of the rest of the people - it was like watching amateur hour.
And Laurie Zimmer - she would go through some extremes, trying hard to be hard-boiled tough-sexy (à la vintage Lauren Bacall in those classic Bogie movies), but just come off being a half-beat off and hard to watch (her acting, that is).
And then there was the pièce de résistance when she is standing woodenly, in that odd slump-shouldered, lobotomized stance looking over her fallen comrade. That was SO stupid-looking!
How some of these scenes got off the cutting-room floor and back into the movie beats the heck out of me.
"7.4"?? I'd give it about a "2.4," worthy of a curiosity look but nothing I'd want to waste my time watching ever again.