There was a big stink when this movie first came out because one of the sideplots involves setting passed-out bums on fire, and naturally some folks started doing this for real. In fact, setting bums on fire got so popular that for a while they were forming leagues and everything. It was a lucky break for the bums that a few years later everyone started disco dancing and the whole fad just sort of sputtered out.

That aside, I can think of a way better reason not to like this movie- because it's stupid. It tries to be one of those cop movies that's super realistic and shit (like the TV show Barney Miller), but the real things cops do (hassling the kids, hassling black people, taking coffee breaks) are generally pretty boring so they try to make it at least semi-interesting by throwing in goofy shit like the fact that the police station is currently being repainted so there's paint on everything. Wow, it's so carefully engineered to be zany and yet mundane! Fuck off, Fuzz. The main plot involves this guy who starts out by threatening to murder the parks commissioner. He's only asking for five grand not to do it, but America won't give in to terrorism even when it's a bargain, so he pops the guy while I laugh my ass off because really, who cares about the goddamned parks commissioner? I wouldn't have paid the five grand either. Of course, for his next trick the killer ups the stakes, but ultimately he's entirely too James Bond for a movie like this, especially at the very end when we think he's drowned and suddenly he pops back out of the water like fucking Jason Voorhees or something. And the thrilling climax, where three sets of completely unrelated bad guys just happen to converge and accidentally off each other, would be a fucking joke if it wasn't such a goddamned insult to my intelligence. Of course, considering how incompetent the cops in this movie are, that was probably the only way any of these criminals was ever going to be brought to justice. For example, in one part this political dude's life has been threatened, but when some joker shows up to tinker around under his hood the cops just let him go about his business unsupervised and without even bothering to confirm who the fool is. One cop even leads him to the car! Of course he plants a bomb, and the political dude is exploded. Later, these same bad guys plant another bomb right under the cops' noses by claiming that they work for the electric company and have to check the house the cops are guarding for a leak in the electrical line. Yeah, there's electricity leaking all over the joint, you pork-scented jackasses. Christ. Seriously, this movie just straight-up pisses me off. I wish I had an extra ball so it could suck all three of them.

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