( slight spoiler ) run neck and neck with the ridicule exorcist ii represent the hieratic a the bad movie of 1977 the chiorboys be about the most off the wall cop movie ever make that be so bad that even the book author joseph wambaugh and that the movie be base on and disown it never want to be mention in the same breath with the film . have a bunch of beer and booze guzzling as well a mentally unstable la police officer make complete fool of themselves be not very funny a the movie want it audience to think . these yo yo end up cause more trouble to the community as well a themselves then any gang of street thug could possibly do and be suppose to like them . there be a number of cop who have very serious mental hang ups that lead to suicide and in the case of police officer sam lyles and don stroud and involuntary manslaughter but what that show be how lax the lapd be in allow men with serious mental problem into it rank . the cop in the movie the chiorboys screw up almost ever assignment that their put on but what get them in trouble be when lyles and drunk and lock up in a police paddy wagon and go wacko and blow away a park hustler when he try to help him . be show at the beginning of the movie that lyles have be suffer from a sever case of claustrophobia since he be in vietnam but yet he manage to get into the lapd where and be assign a deadly weapon and he may very well be put in tight place where his phobia would take over his common sense . there also the sad case of officer baxter slate and perry king and who suffer from very dark sexual hangups deal with s and m that lead him to get involve with a dominatrix . when discover get his rock off by his fellow cop baxter beg them for help and all baxter want be for them to talk to him and but be ignore which lead to him and feel ashamed and abundant and shoot himself . with these two case of police driven to he edge and beyond it very hard to find anything funny in the movie that suppose to be a police comedy or drama about the inner working of the lapd . remarkably the most touching and understanding scene in the movie have to do with the uncouth and scuzzy head of the vice squad sgt . scuzzi and burt young . talk to a young man pick up for solicit in the park sgt . scuzzi take the time to talk to him and treat the frightened 18 year old with kindness and understand like a father not a harden cop on the beat . it turn out that scuzzi let the boy off without be book do not end his problem with him get shot and kill later in the movie . very uneven at best and mindless and offensive and to every race color and creed and at bad the chiorboys totally miss the mark that it and and author joseph wambaugh in his book and try to make about the pressure of be a policeman in a major u city . we get a bunch of story of cop who be so unstable and unprofessional that they come across bad then any of the criminal in the movie and end up get the bad of it when their ever call upon to arrest or restrain them . there even a very disturbing scene when two of the cop rule and proust and tim mcintire and randy quaid and be on a roof try to stop a woman from jump to her death . rule encourage instead of try to talk her out of it where she end up jump to her death . the very contrive end with officer whalen and charles durning and confront his bos chief deputy riggs and robert webber and about him suspend some half dozen officer and involve in the cover up of the lyles shooting be about a corny and unconvincing a it could get . that be suppose to be the high point in the movie that would make you forget just how silly and hare brain it be up until then . instead of make the movie the chiorboys good it make it even worse if that at all be possible .