****SPOILERS**** Ridicules film about blackmail murder and kidnapping that's so unconvincing due to the uneven plot and unbelievably bad acting of the three jerks involved in, or trying to pull off, the "Perfect Crime" that's about as "Perfect" as a baseball player going 0 for 100 at the plate and batting .000.
Successful businessman Harry Mitchell, Roy Scheider, is being blackmailed by the three hoods, Alan Leo & Bobby, John Glover Robert Trebor & Clarence Williams III, for cheating on his wife Barbara, Ann-Margaret,who's running for city councilwomen in LA on the Mark Arveson, Doug McClure ticket for DA. Harry is shown by the trio a video tape of him and his girlfriend Cini, Kelly Preston,in and out of the beach and swimming pool as well as their clothes. The hoods tell Harry that if he doesn't pay up they'll make his affair public and destroy his marriage as well as his wife, Barbara, political career.
Right away there's something wrong by seeing the girl that Harry's fooling around with his girlfriend, Cini Eaah So So, to the woman that he's cheating on his wife, Barbara WoW!,it should in all likelihood have been the other way around.
Later Harry comes clean and tells Barbara what he was up to and she, after thinking it over, forgives him and Harry later tells the blackmailers to go blow. Instead they kidnap Harry and show him a video tape of them killing Cini with Harry's gun with his fingerprints on it which Alan stole from his house by breaking in and posing as a person who works for some accounting service, and threatening to give it to the police if Harry doesn't pay up. The only problem with that is that we later find out that these three bozo's threw the video tape and in all probability the gun away into the polluted city river.
Harry smartly plays the hoods off against each other by making them think that their cheating each other out of the $52,000.00 in blackmail money and has them cancel themselves out, except the top hood Alan who was saved for the movie's flaming ending, in the process.
The 52 grand is all that Harry could afford after the three blackmailers wanted $105,000.00 a year for life, what if they ever moved during their lifetime would they give Harry a forwarding address?
The hoods in the movie are so ridicules that it was hard to take them seriously for one moment. Alan is so cool that he seemed to not know what was going on most of the time he was on the screen and acted so uninformed to just what the movie was about it seemed as if he just stumbled on the set to get a fee cup of coffee from the casts refreshment stand.
Leo overacted so much as a wimp and crybaby that he almost drowned Harry and the movie audience with a flood of tears in his last and most overbearing scene before he was blasted away by the drugged out and almost unconscious Bobby who would have been lucky if, in the condition that he was in, didn't end up shooting himself. With Bobby who was so stoned during the entire film that, like Alan, seemed totally unaware to what was happening and what he was supposed to be doing in the movie.
The ending ripped off the Charles Bronson movie "The Mechanic" with Alan being blown apart when he turned on Harry's car engine and was told via the car radio that he had just ten seconds to live! The movie "52 pick-up" failed even in that, with Alan having 45 seconds left to live instead.
Successful businessman Harry Mitchell, Roy Scheider, is being blackmailed by the three hoods, Alan Leo & Bobby, John Glover Robert Trebor & Clarence Williams III, for cheating on his wife Barbara, Ann-Margaret,who's running for city councilwomen in LA on the Mark Arveson, Doug McClure ticket for DA. Harry is shown by the trio a video tape of him and his girlfriend Cini, Kelly Preston,in and out of the beach and swimming pool as well as their clothes. The hoods tell Harry that if he doesn't pay up they'll make his affair public and destroy his marriage as well as his wife, Barbara, political career.
Right away there's something wrong by seeing the girl that Harry's fooling around with his girlfriend, Cini Eaah So So, to the woman that he's cheating on his wife, Barbara WoW!,it should in all likelihood have been the other way around.
Later Harry comes clean and tells Barbara what he was up to and she, after thinking it over, forgives him and Harry later tells the blackmailers to go blow. Instead they kidnap Harry and show him a video tape of them killing Cini with Harry's gun with his fingerprints on it which Alan stole from his house by breaking in and posing as a person who works for some accounting service, and threatening to give it to the police if Harry doesn't pay up. The only problem with that is that we later find out that these three bozo's threw the video tape and in all probability the gun away into the polluted city river.
Harry smartly plays the hoods off against each other by making them think that their cheating each other out of the $52,000.00 in blackmail money and has them cancel themselves out, except the top hood Alan who was saved for the movie's flaming ending, in the process.
The 52 grand is all that Harry could afford after the three blackmailers wanted $105,000.00 a year for life, what if they ever moved during their lifetime would they give Harry a forwarding address?
The hoods in the movie are so ridicules that it was hard to take them seriously for one moment. Alan is so cool that he seemed to not know what was going on most of the time he was on the screen and acted so uninformed to just what the movie was about it seemed as if he just stumbled on the set to get a fee cup of coffee from the casts refreshment stand.
Leo overacted so much as a wimp and crybaby that he almost drowned Harry and the movie audience with a flood of tears in his last and most overbearing scene before he was blasted away by the drugged out and almost unconscious Bobby who would have been lucky if, in the condition that he was in, didn't end up shooting himself. With Bobby who was so stoned during the entire film that, like Alan, seemed totally unaware to what was happening and what he was supposed to be doing in the movie.
The ending ripped off the Charles Bronson movie "The Mechanic" with Alan being blown apart when he turned on Harry's car engine and was told via the car radio that he had just ten seconds to live! The movie "52 pick-up" failed even in that, with Alan having 45 seconds left to live instead.