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Daniel Baldwin, Xander Berkeley, R.D. Call, Richard Chaves, Ed de Fusco ... see more see more... , Peter Dobson , Clarence Gilyard Jr. , Donald Grant , Vincent Guastaferro , Laura Harrington , Leo Lee , Alex McArthur , Scott Plank , Ely Pouget , Victor Rivers , Michael Rooker , John Santucci , Dennis Scott , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Daniel Villarreal , Robert Winley , Anthony Winters , Aixa Clemente , Mimi Lieber , Jan Munroe , Gil Parra , Al Jones

Producer/director Michael Mann, kappelmeister of the trendy TV series Miami Vice, tried to impose his MTV mentality on Tinseltown with L.A. Takedown. Los Angeles cop Scott Plank is on the trail of mas... read more read more...ter thief Alex McArthur. After McArthur pulls off "the score of a lifetime," the crook and the cop spend the rest of their screen time in a deadly game of one-upsmanship. The usual Michael Mann trademark of style over substance prevails throughout L.A. Takedown. But the vogue had passed, and this TV pilot film failed to graduate into a series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Michael Mann

Release Date: August 27, 1989

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  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    I actually really liked this film. Maybe a little bit more than Heat, its fancy remake had it not been for the much better cast!.

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Tim Brayton
June 12, 2009
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

A film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it. Full Review

August 14, 2007
Variety

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Dragan Antulov
August 14, 2003
Dragan Antulov, rec.arts.movies.reviews

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