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Rating: 5.5 stars

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Seen on: 05/24/2011

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Code of Silence (1985)

Directed by Andrew Davis

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Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Rated R | Length 101 minutes

Actors

Dennis Farina | John Mahoney | Henry Silva | Bert Remsen | Zaid Farid | Chuck Norris | Ron Dean | Molly Hagan | Miguel Nino | Mike Genovese | Joseph F. Kosala | Wilbert Bradley | Jack Kandel | Howard Jackson | Alex Stevens | Don Pike | Gary Pike | Joe Guzaldo | Dennis Cockrum | Nathan Davis | Ron Henriquez | Allen Hamilton | Gene Barge | Mario Nieves | Ralph Foody | Les Podewell | Nydia Rodriguez Terracina | James Fierro | Andre Marquis | Lou Damiani | Ronnie Barron | Trish Schaefer | Tom Letuli

Viewing Notes

I grabbed this DVD from the library mainly because I hadn’t seen it before, and it was based in Chicago in the eighties, which was about the time I was coming into Chicago a lot as a teenager to see shows and buy music.

While I enjoyed it, it’s not a great movie, especially in the pathos of Chuck Norris movies. Norris doesn’t do much in the way of hand-to-hand ass kicking here; it’s mostly gun play and bad acting.

The movie appears to be entirely shot on location in various parts of Chicago, including areas on the North side, where I used to live. It was a trip seeing places I recognized. Everything was dirtier and sleazier back then. We often don’t appreciate just how great a job the late Mayor Daley did in beautifying Chicago.

The other cool thing in Code of Silence is the police ‘robot’ called the Prowler! The remote control is about the size of a mid-80’s Chevy Impala transmission, but it does a great job of laying down the law in the final warehouse showdown.

Henry Silva plays the bad guy and Chicago native and ex-policeman Dennis Farina plays Norris’ sidekick. What would a Chicago movie involving cops be without Farina in it?

Again, not an earth shattering movie, but for me at least, a fun watch.

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