A daft but enjoyable Italian crime thriller starring everybody's favourite Italian leading man, Tomas Milian. The first half mainly consists of action as Milian battles and chases various criminals on his trusty motorbike, while snapping at people in the way that tough Italian cops invariably do. A wealth of cheesy dialogue, well-staged action and a fast-moving plot make it very easy to take and an enjoyable viewing experience. In the second half, evil businessman Jack Palance makes his unwelcome appearance. His hoods beat up and kill a man at a snooker hall in a violent confrontation. After this, Milian wages war on Palance and hunts him down, events culminating in a cross-country chase by car.Milian here adopts the persona of Al Pacino in SERPICO, as a laid back, weirdly-dressed cop who looks more like a hippie. Milian has posters of Pacino in his bedroom and keeps a pet mouse in his pocket (the mouse turns up unexplainedly wearing a hat in the last shot - a cool, but weird surprise!). Milian's growling, startlingly athletic role is a good one and the genre veteran acquits himself well with it, creating a funny, likable character. His opposite - the movie's villain - is played by the ever-grinning Palance, who does his usual thing (smokes cigars, smiles a lot and just acts kind of sleazy).Highlights include the flat-out action ending, which really gets the pulse going; a never-ending scene where Milian chases a gang, first up a flight of stairs on his motorbike and then across a roof; a fight in a market; plus a horrible '70s disco inhabited by a crudely-drawn homosexual and a cameo dancer who proceeds to put his jacket on back to front (!?!). Although the plot is simple in the extreme (the "cops and robbers" idea at it's crudest), there are lots of characters and situations to make it seem more complicated than it really is; the genre staples of beatings, gang fights, shoot-outs, car chases etc. are all presented in a stylish way. The twee theme music is annoying at first but soon grows on you too. THE COP IN BLUE JEANS is a solid addition to the Italian crime cycle and worthwhile viewing for all action-orientated fans!

After the spaghetti western genre died in Italy, Italian filmmakers moved to cop movies. Like with spaghetti westerns, there were good and not so good efforts, this movie belonging to the latter category. Tomas Milian, an actor who's made an impression in other movies, seems kind of helpless here, thanks to the costume department dressing him up like a homeless person, and a screenplay that gives him very few opportunities to show some kind of character. Jack Palance is pretty much wasted - he only makes two very brief appearances in the first hour, and not much more in the last half hour. But the main problem with the movie is that it feels oh so tired. There are chases, punch-ups, and guns fired, but it all feels so mechanical. Maybe that's why the musical score plays the same bars of music over and over ad nauseum. Even die hard fans of Eurocult movies would be better off skipping this one.

...so retarded, in fact, that it is actually mildly amusing. I highly recommend this for anyone who plans to watch it with a bunch of friends while in an intoxicated state. Although I was not intoxicated when I viewed this bowl of soggy Italian pasta (in fact, i was eating vegetables and whole wheat crackers) I still had a difficult time picking out any blue jeans. As others have mentioned...Jack Palance only staggers onto the screen for a few brief moments before collecting his paycheck and heading out for booze (or vegetables and wheat crackers). There seems to be no story line whatsoever - just a few vaguely familiar thugs (didn't I see that guy with the terrible haircut a few scenes ago? no wait...that was another terrible haircut guy) thumping on each other (just for the fun of it) to tinny Italian meatball music. An incredibly painful/comical waste of 95 minutes.

I like old spaghetti police movies! Always dark, violents and originals. And they usually got a very good soundtrack. This one is no exception. The beginning is great, starting exactly like Street Law: small criminals doing pickpocket and many violent acts on bike. then come Millian violently punishing these little criminals. jack palance play a great bad guy, even if you know that he didnt put a lot of effort in this role. The first half is very good, but the second, I admit, is a little bit boring. Recommended for Millian and Bruno Corbucci fan and for the killer soundtrack by Guido and Maurizio...so cool.