The French Connection cleaned up at the 1972 Oscars with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing and Best Actor for Gene Hackman. It was also up for several more awards. I’ve had the movie in my collection for quite a while as I won it in an online movie contest from Fox 9. With all the accolades and word of mouth, I expected it to be this amazing movie with a great story and unbelievable action. Sometimes expectations can ruin a movie experience and that is what happened to me. Based on a true story with actual characters, it’s intriguing but it’s slow at times and hard to keep up with some of the plot. Granted I don’t see a lot of movies from the early ’70’s but I just wasn’t the biggest fan and maybe some of it is just how movies were made back then. If you want to watch it and fast-forward to the car chase scene under the train in New York, now that would be worth watching.