this film be over 30 year old and it attitude be disgracefully non pc . that be a give . it not like today when everybody love one another and we all live in harmony in a rainbow nation and all creed and race co exist in an atmosphere of mutual respect . well and do not they . thing aren not a lot different in 2006 and it just that hollywood like to make u think they be . i be not say for a minute that it right that thing have barely change in 30 year and but no amount of wish will make it so . professional criminal still hide their activity behind the poor and disenfranchise of their own community and ferment trouble for their own advantage and cop like eddie ryan still hate them bitterly for do it . law mean to protect the weak and vulnerable still shelter the cruel and ruthless . if eddie ryan and like harry callaghan before him and feel like chuck in his badge then he can not altogether be blame . not that he get a chance a his boss pre empt him . clearly certain member of the hispanic community be not show in an exceptionally positive light in badge 373 and mr ryan be a baad baaad man and homophobic and racist and sexist and probably several other ists a well . but he do not exist in a vacuum and he merely reflect the society he live in . i would suggest that a significant proportion of the population hold attitude not a thousand mile away from his and consider them to be perfectly acceptable . so here we be in 2006 tsk tsk about a film that show a society whose view we do not approve of . they be time of social unrest and when there appear to be a real threat to the status quo . criminal take advantage of the turmoil and it be difficult to tell the man with a grievance from the man with a gun . badge 373 occupies quite an important position in the cop movie pantheon . it have obvious similarity to the french connection but lack tfc sheer energy and inventiveness . it break new ground in show the cop or hero a a distinctly unpleasant person something the shield have make a virtue of . your cop could now be dirty ( dirty harry wasn not actually dirty be he ) and unprepossessing and inarticulate and amoral . mr robert duval create a pugnacious objectionable ignorant cop we aren not suppose to admire and but one that we can believe in . he have be corrupt by the world he move in and work by it rule and not those of respectable society . he be a wreck of a man and like the bad lieutenant . badge 373 influence reach a long way and you can not make a cop movie today without at least sub consciously refer to it . it may look a bit cheap and shoddy by today mega budget standard and much of it may seem familiar and but remember you be look at it from the wrong end of time telescope .