this movie be not about the soda nor be it quite the french connection . the seven ups be a group of elite policeman that use tactic not in accordance with protocol of the nypd . scheider head the group with his posse or regular look joes . they be run surveillance on a local costra nostra cartel and thing go awry when a cop wire be find out . meanwhile and richard lynch and the most evil look man in film ( invasion representamerica and little nikita ) and his partner end up kill the cop by accident and escape from scheider in the cool chase scene i have see and bullitt and french connection be not as good a they one up the west side to the george washington and onto the palisade parkway in new jersey . the stunt driver be terrific and lynch make it away free though he look scared witless from the dangerous trip . roy scheider be nearly kill when his car slam into the abutted rear of mack truck rip the roof of his vehicle off . thing come to a head and one have to keep watching to follow up on such a sequence . quick moving and intense and fresh for a thirty year .