Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Simitar Ent.
• VHS Release Date: March 30, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000IBPQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,289 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good buth not as good as the books/audio's, November 7, 1999

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J. ENGELS (3590 diepenbeek, BELGIUM Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Here is one of the better movies about the 87th.precinct. Don't like the actors much, buth dialogues are good and similar to the dialogues in the books. Prefer the B/W TV-movies with Robert Lansing and Norman Fell. Buth still the price worth,even if you are not a McBain fan. Hope to see more where this came from.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars TIRED COPS, May 23, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct (DVD)

When you have a movie where you know the identity of the killer, you HAVE to make the story move so you don't lose interest. Unfortunately, in 8TH PRECINCT (based on Ed McBain's "Lightning") fails to provide the chills and suspense necessary when you already nowhodunit!!!! And by the end of the movie, the killer's motive is so predictable, it's almost laughable!!!
In trying to capture the "grittiness" of McBain's popular series, director Bruce Paltrow only manages to give us lifeless acting, no true suspenseful scenes, and an embarrassing romantic entanglement for Randy Quaid and deaf mute Deanne Brey. Randy is not as apt at this type of role as those in which he is allowed to release his inhibitions and chew up the scenery. Alex MacArthur as his partner who finds out his wife is cheating on him is also flaccid and uninteresting.
Good plot, weak script, poor acting, Ed deserves better than this.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 87th Precinct impressed me., December 30, 2000

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R Taylor (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct (DVD)

This movie was my first opportunity to observe Quaid in a serious role and I was impressed. The story is your basic homicide thriller but Quaid and Rhames did excellent jobs of making it work. I would whole-heartedly recommend this to anyone who enjoys the genre and/or doubts the range of Randy Quaid.