A sleazy, incompetent detective tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a socialite who murdered a burglar. Joe Don Baker is Mitchell, a hard-nosed, soft-bellied cop with an affinity for porn and Schlitz. His latest assignment has him engaging in no-speed car chases, yelling at children, shooting at innocents and sloppily harassing Linda Evans. The MST3K episode that this "action" movie was featured in was a landmark episode in three ways: MSTies said goodbye to Joel Hodgson, welcomed Mike Nelson on board the Sattelite of Love, and were introduced to the horror that is Joe Don Baker.<br/><br/>As for the movie itself, it's a load of stinking, audience-hating rubbish. Joe Don Baker plays a loathsome slob-cop who goes after a drug dealer, annoys his boss (and the audience for that matter), and busts hooker Linda Evans after using her for sex. There's an incredibly slow car chase which passes off as an action sequence and a really repulsive "love scene" between Joe Don Baker and Linda Evans (I really hope she got combat pay for that!) which will make you sterile just thinking about it.<br/><br/>As an MST3K episode, Joel couldn't have asked to go out on a better note. On its own though, this movie is worthless. Who's that studly cop who always gets his man and charms them foxy ladies? It's certainly not Mitchell. He spends most of his time looking at obvious clues to a crime, drinking beer, flirting with hookers, sitting outside a suspects house but never finding proof he did anything, scaring children, letting fellow cops jump from helicopters after he uses them to shield bullets, and drinking beer.<br/><br/>They wrote this script as if the main character never actually finds a lead by himself, but rather gets lucky enough to stumble on to several. Mitchell is a film celebrating a more realistic American cop. A corrupt, lazy guy who gets lucky enough to solve a case and sleeps with hookers, then arrests them for it.
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