SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Uriah43 Having incurred the wrath of his boss, "Deputy Sheriff Coogan" (Clint Eastwood) is sent from Arizona to New York to bring back a fugitive by the name of "James Ringerman" (Don Stroud). When he gets there he is told by "Lt. McElroy" (Lee J. Cobb) that he will have to wait a few days before the NYPD can hand the prisoner over to him. Not wanting to wait around Coogan goes to the hospital where Ringerman is being held and manages to get the prisoner released to him under false pretenses. Unfortunately, on the way to the heliport Coogan is knocked unconscious and Ringerman escapes. Now Coogan is faced with tracking the fugitive in a totally different environment than what he is used to. Anyway, rather than spoiling the movie for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was a decent movie for the most part. I especially liked the performances of Clint Eastwood and the young woman named "Linny Raven" (Tisha Sterling). Along with that Susan Clark (as "Julie Roth") was rather nice on the eyes as well. Be that as it may, while this movie might not be the best Clint Eastwood film ever made it's entertaining enough for the time spent. Slightly above average.

Ed-Shullivan I believe Clint Eastwood started to emerge as the 1970's lead action star with his starring role in Coogan's Bluff. Don Siegel directed this absolute action movie which is a great representation of what action movies were about for the next decade or so. Clint Eastwood starred in a few of director Don Siegel's action movies, and I am sure Clint absorbed a lot of his talents as a director from watching Mr Siegel's work behind the camera. Clint plays an Arizona deputy sheriff sent to the big apple to pick up and return to Arizona a very dangerous murderer. The opening scenes of this movie have Clint chasing another on the run criminal in the mountains of Arizona and reflect Clint's unorthodox methods of hunting and capturing dangerous criminals.The Toronto, Ontario born actress Susan Clark was not only exceptionally attractive playing opposite to Clint Eastwood as his main love interest, but as a result of her complimenting the camera, she starred opposite many lead actors in the years to follow. After starring opposite NFL football star Alex Karras in the biography Babe, she married Mr. Karras in 1980 and remained with him until his death in October 2012. Don Stroud as the escaped murderer on the run, and Lee J Cobb as the lead New York investigator added depth to their characters and helped round out a strong castThis movie contains a good musical score, lot's of action, and lots of Clint Eastwood at his bad ass best. It is a classic action movie that helped Clint Eastwood and Susan Clark sustain long and endearing movie careers.

callanvass I saw this a couple years back. I'm a huge Clint Eastwood fan. He's responsible for some of the greatest Western movies ever made, and is absolutely iconic in my books, but he did have some duds like any good actor along the way. Coogan's Bluff I'm sad to say was one of them. I was really taken aback by how ruthless this was, arguably a bit too ruthless for its own good. It's not the vulgarity that sinks it though, but the bad pacing. It was really mundane to watch most of the time. This was the inspiration for the T.V series McCloud, but I've never seen that show either. If it's anything like this movie, maybe that is a good thing. Clint Eastwood is great and perhaps served as a precursor to Dirty Harry, but he isn't able to contend with this movie's shortcomings. Final Thoughts: Die hard Clint fans will wanna check this out, but it doesn't offer a whole lot in my opinion. Clint would correct this failed attempt with Dirty Harry. 4/10

dougdoepke Eastwood certainly fits easily into the role of an arrogant Arizona sheriff. Of course, Coogan's supposed to be a pitiless master of all situations, which is why Julie (Clark) has trouble falling for his straight-arrow hunk of a man. It's impressive watching him stride obliviously through New York crowds, towering over them in his ten-gallon cowboy hat. This is one of the flicks that established Eastwood's flinty film persona, and a perfect tune-up for the Dirty Harry series.Then too, it didn't hurt Eastwood's politically conservative image to show him elbowing his way through a hedonistic crowd of hippies at a New York nightclub; at the same time, it's the hippie Linny (Sterling) who betrays him twice despite her sweet smile. Add to that his showing the rogue Indian who's boss by making him change into white man's garments, and you've got one of the few anti-counterculture movies to come out of rebellious 1968.The film itself is entertaining enough, the premise being a pregnant one of a western sheriff tangling with big city police bureaucracy (Cobb) over remanding a fugitive (Stroud) back to Arizona. It's all directed smoothly enough by Eastwood's friend and mentor Don Siegel, but doesn't show his characteristic stamp, being an all-Eastwood showcase instead. Clark, Cobb, and Tully, all give first-rate support, along with a heckuva motorcycle chase, which I suppose is an imaginative substitute for the horseback chase from a thousand western matinees. All in all, it's a colorful exercise, if you can take 90-minutes of Coogan's deadpan ego.(In passing—note the suddenly brief appearance of a huge black & white tarantula in the midst of the psychedelic light show. It seems a strange intrusion unless you recall one of Eastwood's first films was Tarantula (1955) from which the insert was taken—an inside joke by Siegel, I'll wager.)