Cruising

i like AL PACINO films but this movie is really kind film i ever see.gay mens are very sick and danger pepole i dont really play with those mens.however this film is a good crime\gangster i really enjoy that.... Full review

This movies is very bad and on top of that prejudice, don't waste your money. It reeks of homophobia, let's face it, if any other group was stereotyped in this manner in a film, this movies would've never been produced.... Full review

I saw the movie many years ago and didn't understand any of the subplots. I thought it was just that I was young when I saw it, but now I know why I didn't understand it. It was a very poor... Full review

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who actually like this movie."Cruising" is a very unusual film, a very unique film for a lot of reasons.First of all,and most of all,the movie takes place in a world that... Full review

THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT, THIS WAS THE FIRST PACIN0 MOVIE THAT I SAW, AND WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START OFF.... Full review

this movie seems to have been completely dismissed, but it shouldn't have been. The story is controversial, but interesting. Obviously not everyone's cup of tea but still this film does not deserve to be tossed in the bin as mere gay... Full review

A serial-killer is attacking homosexual men in New York and the police have no leads. An ambitious young cop goes undercover and hangs out at the gay bars and nightspots to lure the killer out, but finds himself being changed... Full review

I was ten years old and an old movie house not far from my home was playing a double feature. It was Empire Strikes Back and Cruising. After nagging to my grandma for days she took me and a friend... Full review

This is a FRIEDKIN movie. Consequently, it is soulless, dark and physical. There are no heroes, the range goes from unclear/mixed up/tortured souls/loonies to the dephts of hell. It is also highly interpretative, you can not expect a logical script... Full review

I had the pleasure of seeing this movie recently and I highly recommend it to any people who savor the darker things in life. If I had never seen this movie the reviews left about it everywhere on the net... Full review

The film literally darkens as Steve abandons the sunsplashed, airy apartment of his girlfriend Nancy (Karen Allen) to descend into a nightcrawler's realm of facemasks and jockstraps, color-coded hankies and poppers, handcuffs and ominously greased-up fists and forearms, all displayed amid an angry, scratchy-industrial musical thrum. ... Full Review

That said, Cruising is still worth seeing. The score, from Jack Nitzsche, is very unusual but it fits the film perfectly, blending in well alongside music from the likes of The Germs and Willy De Ville. ... Full Review

Given all this, Cruising can now be ranked among Friedkin's very best films.....Cruising is a dreary, depressing, or even horrifying experience.....taken as a character study, it's a gripping yarn full of dramatic dead ends and exciting breakthroughs.....By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy Cruising on DVD Few films have been as reviled as William Friedkin's Cruising (1980).....It's a great, multileveled performance..... ... Full Review

Except Friedkin doesn't resist editorializing, saying how the music in the movie is "very edgy and dark"- unlike the music that was actually playing in gay bars at the time. Cruising is completely ridiculous, but Friedkin's homophobia gives the film a strange chill. ... Full Review

was #36 on 1980's list of top films ..... ... Full Review

When the movie began production, gay activists were incensed by a portrayal that even Friedkin admits was ''not the best foot forward...as an argument for the acceptance by heterosexual people of the gay lifestyle,'' and raised holy hell. ... Full Article

William Friedkin's 1980 movie Cruising was just re-released in theaters this past weekend for a limited engagement in select cities, and it will be released for the first time ever on DVD on September 18. ... Full Article

Controversial when it opened in 1980, William Friedkin 's "Cruising," a thriller about the search for a serial killer in that era's flourishing world of New York gay leather bars, generated only a murmur when it returned to theaters this... ... Full Article

Director William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film Cruising , about a cop (played by Al Pacino) who goes undercover in New York's gay underground, is currently seeing a one-week limited theatrical run. ... Full Article

Burbank, California- Cruising , more famous for being contentious than for being commercially viable and scheduled to premiere on DVD Sept. 18, opened in 1980. ... Full Article

Cruising ? Why now? And why does it feel like how you answer those questions will determine which side pocket you keep your handkerchief in? ... Full Article