i be not much for cop movie and but this one be supposedly a classic and when i find it cheap i buy it and stick it on a shelf and only to finally get around to watch it yesterday and and i like it . now and you can have new york city and but a a setting for a film like this and in the winter month and it perfect . roy scheider be a member of an elite police task group call the seven ups and which be 5 guy that fight crime undercover . in an opening scene they recover a shoebox full of money from an antique store by distract the crook with a bull in a china shop routine . but that only the beginning . seem that there be two guy and pose a cop and that be kidnap mob type and hold them for ransom . richard lynch happen to be one of these sleaze bag and and he as creepy a ever . when one of the seven ups and who be pose a a limo driver at a funeral and get his cover blown and he beaten and stuff into the trunk of a car and which then lead to perhaps one of the most exciting car chase i have see . amazing though and how light traffic in nyc be for chase scene and but still this be rather amazing a scheider follow the two kidnapper through what i be guess be the bronx and then onto a turnpike and then eventually and scheider car come to a screeching halt in one of the most heart stop finale to a chase scene that i have ever witness . anyway and since the cop end up die and scheider and his men be under suspicion because the police commissioner know so little about their activity he wonder if theyre on the make by kidnap mobster and so of course this kind of think need to be nip in the bud and scheider be relentless get to the bottom of thing . overall a decent cop action or drama and not really my thing but i like this one . look for joe spinell ( maniac ) in a small role . positive .