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10/29/08
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:19
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 52 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: When a notorious, highly sophisticated counterfeiter murders his partner, Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) launches a furious vendetta to capture the man responsible. But... [More]
Starring: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Dean Stockwell
Director: William Friedkin
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Reviews for To Live and Die in L.A.
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09/15/07
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03/30/07
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06/24/06
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10/10/05
William Friedkin returned to form with this tough, stylish and gutsy crime thriller enhanced by one of the great soundtracks of the 1980s.
10/08/05
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09/28/05
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07/26/05
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05/06/05
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03/24/05
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02/18/05
...the film's accumulation of stock clichés and negative outlooks finally overpowers everything else in the story and becomes more than a mite dispiriting.
01/31/04
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.
01/13/04
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.
12/10/03
Action set-pieces are brilliantly blocked and shot, but never to the detriment of the unnerving unspooling of the universally unsavory cast of characters.
12/08/03
No review available.
11/15/03
Visceral just often enough to allay the infuriatingly generic shortcuts Friedkin and co. take to a finale that throws the film triumphantly off its Hollywood-conventional axis
10/23/03
No review available.
06/06/03
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05/20/03
Top CriticA sylish bit of 80's action-noir, with an amazing original soundtrack by forgotten one-hit wonders of the decade, Wang Chung.
03/19/03
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