mod squad

its pretty easy to see why this one failed when it first came out: because it is not at all interesting!  i know i'm not exactly the target audience for this one, i have never seen a single episode of the original tv show, in fact i didnt know there was a tv show called 'mod squad' until this movie came out!  the story follows these three criminals who have now joined the police squad as inside agents trying to get rid of the bad guys.  their one advocate on the police force is killed and now the rest of the police want to get rid of them.  well, it turns out, unsurprisingly enough, that the cops are corrupt.  so the three of them have to work outside the system to take it down.  perhaps its due to my lack of knowledge (or interest) in the source material, or maybe its the fact that these three good actors are really slumming it here, or maybe its the lame story thats been told hundreds of times better.  i'm not sure what it is, but this movie was no good at all!