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Title: Pedestrian
Review: The parallel story of a police informant within a Boston gang and a gang informant within the police. Well filmed and generally acted well, this film is nonetheless over-rated. The plot is excessively complex with realism sacrificed in the interest of making the stories of the 2 informants parallel. This allows a lot of well done cross-cutting between plot lines but strains credulity. Some of the dialogue verges on self-parody. Most of the principals and supporting cast do well but Jack Nicholson's performance as an evil Nietzschean egoist is rank scenery chewing. The French Connection this isn't.
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