Order of Death
1983
Crime / Thriller

Order of Death
1983
Crime / Thriller
Plot summary
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment.
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Coulda, Shoulda...but DIDN'T
Italian Dirty Cop film...
I saw this film under the title "Corrupt" and the picture looked like it was really going somewhere when bad cop Fred O'Connor (Harvey Keitel) pulled the old head in the oven trick on cop killer Leo Smith (Johnny Lydon/Johnny Rotten). The story is rather bizarre because pretty much from the outset you realize Smith is the perp who slashes the throats of New York City policemen, but then he shows up at O'Connor's apartment and simply confesses to his crimes. I suppose it was necessary to set up the rest of the disjointed story, seeing as how Fred and his partner (Leonard Mann) were into some heavy duty drug dealing of their own, keeping an expensive Central Park West apartment with their illicit drug money. Somewhere along the line the logic needed to convince the viewer that Keitel's character was unraveling just didn't seem to make it. Leo Smith's preposterous set up for O'Connor to take the fall as the cop killer would have been more effective if the psychological angle had been explored more effectively. This one's recommended for Harvey Keitel completists or for Sex Pistols fans who want to see their main man in something different.