Jeez, they don't make movies like that anymore and for good reason. Aside from the outstanding action, car chases in Manhattan, shooting out windows, car crashes, and so much more, the filmmakers sure do love to make Puerto Ricans and black people the scourge of society. They blamed every problem of New York on the two groups. It was exhausting listening to that bullshit. Definitely of the 1980's and for a white audience of New York, who I watched the film with. It's like that "subtle" racism is so commonplace in media and that's the reason why it's still with us today. People who grew up with that kind of attitude in an otherwise normal movie thought it was normal. All black and Puerto Rican men were terrible, but a few women were okay, if they were beautiful.
James Brolin
Despite all that, it did capture so much of New York City in the 1980's, all kinds of transportation. It seems 1/2 of New Yorkers were running in this film, in their work clothes and whatever, which I also found odd. James Brolin is a delight and with a heavy beard looking like a lumberjack in Manhattan, he did feel like an unusual lead in a good way.