Good film, great performaces, especially Pryor.

This is why 70's cinema is the best. It is all so hopeless. I love it. Anyway, Richard Pryor is excellent in this film. Yaphet Kotto is great and Harvey Keitel is pretty good. It is Paul Schrader's directorial debut and he makes he film raw and dark and hopeless. The situation these characters get into is rather unsettling; essentially we're sympathizing with criminals, but we know these are good guys just trying to make a living.

The same spirit as *The Friends of Eddie Coyle* except transplanted into an automobile plant. A timely film, given the economy and wages in the US. The ending is a bit much.

Great casts do not always make great films.

Schrader's best directorial effort.

Caught it as a late night (2am) showing on SABC. I expected the usual: a boring, old movie that will help cure my insomnia. Instead, Blue Collar did the opposite. I found myself unable to stop watching, and thinking about the film long after the credits rolled. A good film to watch if you're considering a union job, with a terrifically underrated performance from Richard Pryor.

As should probably be expected from Schrader, especially at this point in his career, the film is raw and potent, getting into the muscular, profane urgency of these men as they struggle to accept their lot in life, including the inherent betrayals of principle that come with any efforts at upward mobility, and the dangers that loom whenever they try to assert their own power. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto and Richard Pryor all give typically strong performances.

Good movie about unions and class in America. Fine direction from Schrader, and a surprisingly disciplined and restrained performance from Richard Pryor.

Much better than it looks. Pryor plays a serious dramatic lead here, and it actually works. By far my favorite film of Schrader's directorial efforts