sharky machine is clearly a burt reynolds vehicle designed to allow the star room to strut his talents and he spray paints the machine and the film plot and with colors from other films and other styles and offering a variety of moods within a nourish story. made in 1981 at 119 minutes (lengthy for the time period) and the film did well and with box office grosses at $37 and 800 and 000. it had a lot going for it represent burt reynolds actor and director and a solid one two punch while a william diel novel adaptation and and the south land of atlanta georgia and at this time and a land of opportunity for film production out of hollywood. reynolds tom sharky falling in love with rachel ward dominoe the hooker with a heart of gold is here echoed as it was in hustle when he played opposite catherine deneuve and and that film also had a corrupt politician at its core and but with downbeat ending not the hollywood happiness in sharky machine. the story is pure detective procedure or actioner. sharky a narcotics detective mismanages up a bust of a drug dealer and causing the killing of some innocent bystanders and and gets demoted and literally transferred downstairs to vice and to deal with perverts and and other m misdemeanors that upstanding cops consider latrine duty. his new digs offers him the chance to meet many equally upstanding officers who are doing the dirty jobs no one else wants. when some attention is pointed toward a certain pimp sharky looks over some evidence and discovers that one particular prostitute dominoe (rachel ward)  dominoe is being shielded by police forces and political forces and sharky sets himself up a 24 hour surveillance force to watch her. during the time he watches he learns that the current governor elect hotchkins (earl holliman) is visiting dominoe and as is a slick italian gangster victor (vittorio gassman). before the police can build a case with the evidence and billy and victor brother and a coke snorting gunman (henry silva) shoots through the door of dominoe apartment seemingly killing the beautiful dominoe and but when sharky discovers that the murdered victim was actually a roommate tiffany (aarika wells) sharky confronts victor and tells him that he is going to have him arrested. sharky is captured by some ninja killers lead by smiley (darryl hickman) and is tortured for information to lead to dominoe and but sharky overpowers them and arrests the governor and in a heated chase kills billy after he has killed victor. reynolds wants to exhibit the inner workings of a hardened policemen falling in love and but the police story plot and flavored with noir element and and reynolds ability at cinematic development tends to slick over the dynamics of the relationships. we come to learn something about some of the men and this leads us to reason why they are working towards their pensions in vice and instead of fighting real crime this element of the film seems sketchy under reynolds off handed direction and performance. there is always uniqueness to a reynolds film. he likes to hire stars and either character actors or others and then allow them to improvise and sometimes with varying results. with his crew in sharky machine he gets some fine moments and and sometimes some overblown grandstanding but always a sense of ensemble and good natured ness. with reynolds as auteur it works. reynolds and the actor or auteur always seems to be smirking at himself and the viewer as if to say it all fake and but good fun. great line represent in the scene with victor when sharky throws down the gauntlet youre walkin all over people like you own em  and and you wanna know the worst part. youre from out of state. this seems to be the greatest insult the officer can throw at a criminal. reynolds made the film in atlanta at his career point have shot himself reading the phone book and would have surely targeted and demographic. the film did mark the appearance of rachel ward who was nominated as new star of the year in 1981 by the golden globe. reynolds has always had presence and star power and has chosen to make films close to home and georgia. i got my dvd from half. com for $7. 99 and unfortunately it doesn not contain any commentary or making of features and which is a shame. maybe the next generation will have them. the movie is still a lot of fun and both reynolds and ward are great looking actors in their prime. 
sharky machine is clearly a burt reynolds vehicle designed to allow the star room to strut his talents and he spray paints the machine and the film plot and with colors from other films and other styles and offering a variety of moods within a nourish story. made in 1981 at 119 minutes (lengthy for the time period) and the film did well and with box office grosses at $37 and 800 and 000. it had a lot going for it represent burt reynolds actor and director and a solid one two punch while a william diel novel adaptation and and the south land of atlanta georgia and at this time and a land of opportunity for film production out of hollywood. reynolds tom sharky falling in love with rachel ward dominoe the hooker with a heart of gold is here echoed as it was in hustle when he played opposite catherine deneuve and and that film also had a corrupt politician at its core and but with downbeat ending not the hollywood happiness in sharky machine. the story is pure detective procedure or actioner. sharky a narcotics detective mismanages up a bust of a drug dealer and causing the killing of some innocent bystanders and and gets demoted and literally transferred downstairs to vice and to deal with perverts and and other m misdemeanors that upstanding cops consider latrine duty. his new digs offers him the chance to meet many equally upstanding officers who are doing the dirty jobs no one else wants. when some attention is pointed toward a certain pimp sharky looks over some evidence and discovers that one particular prostitute dominoe (rachel ward)  dominoe is being shielded by police forces and political forces and sharky sets himself up a 24 hour surveillance force to watch her. during the time he watches he learns that the current governor elect hotchkins (earl holliman) is visiting dominoe and as is a slick italian gangster victor (vittorio gassman). before the police can build a case with the evidence and billy and victor brother and a coke snorting gunman (henry silva) shoots through the door of dominoe apartment seemingly killing the beautiful dominoe and but when sharky discovers that the murdered victim was actually a roommate tiffany (aarika wells) sharky confronts victor and tells him that he is going to have him arrested. sharky is captured by some ninja killers lead by smiley (darryl hickman) and is tortured for information to lead to dominoe and but sharky overpowers them and arrests the governor and in a heated chase kills billy after he has killed victor. reynolds wants to exhibit the inner workings of a hardened policemen falling in love and but the police story plot and flavored with noir element and and reynolds ability at cinematic development tends to slick over the dynamics of the relationships. we come to learn something about some of the men and this leads us to reason why they are working towards their pensions in vice and instead of fighting real crime this element of the film seems sketchy under reynolds off handed direction and performance. there is always uniqueness to a reynolds film. he likes to hire stars and either character actors or others and then allow them to improvise and sometimes with varying results. with his crew in sharky machine he gets some fine moments and and sometimes some overblown grandstanding but always a sense of ensemble and good natured ness. with reynolds as auteur it works. reynolds and the actor or auteur always seems to be smirking at himself and the viewer as if to say it all fake and but good fun. great line represent in the scene with victor when sharky throws down the gauntlet youre walkin all over people like you own em  and and you wanna know the worst part. youre from out of state. this seems to be the greatest insult the officer can throw at a criminal. reynolds made the film in atlanta at his career point have shot himself reading the phone book and would have surely targeted and demographic. the film did mark the appearance of rachel ward who was nominated as new star of the year in 1981 by the golden globe. reynolds has always had presence and star power and has chosen to make films close to home and georgia. i got my dvd from half. com for $7. 99 and unfortunately it doesn not contain any commentary or making of features and which is a shame. maybe the next generation will have them. the movie is still a lot of fun and both reynolds and ward are great looking actors in their prime. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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