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Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Action Movie!
Review: Clint Eastwood is great as Harry Callahan!Ilove how he throws away the rules and cleans up the streets his own way!I sure know that scum Scorpio needed to die.This is absoultely one of the best action films EVER!All Harry needs is his 357. to clean up the scum posioning the streets of our cities!I wonder how cops can even do their jobs with all the restrictions they have holding them back!Anyway this is a great piece of filmaking!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Meet "Dirty" Harry Callahan
Review: Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) hates "punks" with a passion. So when a sniper named Scorpio threatens to kill a person a day until the city of San Francisco pays him $100,000, Harry hunts down the killer with great relish. Trouble is, Scorpio keeps slipping the police and claiming new victims. Enraged, Harry breaks all the rules to bring in his man. Despite some controversy over police brutality and victims' rights, this is a riveting police action thriller. Harry is an engaging character with wonderful one liners and a laconic calm in the face of mayhem. Scorpio is such a scumbag that we never seem to question Harry's unorthodox methods, and there are some wonderful scenes with him butting heads with his superiors. Followed by four worthy sequels.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The first was the best
Review: Though they tried and tried and tried, this is the best of the set. Great setting, using a positively magic city as backdrop (coincidence that this and Bullitt, the two best cop films of the era were both set in San Francisco? I think not).

This film alone (even if Harrys 2,3,and 4 were never shown) made the persona of one of the most memorable characters in American film. This film was also helped by one of the best/worst bad guy of all the Dirty Harry films (Andy Robinson). He was so bad that even after he paid to be brutally beaten there was still the feeling that he did not get enough (reinforced by the great Dirty Harry line: You know I didn't do it 'cause he looked too damned good") Wonderful dark humor, shared by all characters. A tense thriller. We knew folks were going to get murdered (otherwise, how could we set him up as a bad guy?), but there was still tension when we looked through Scorpio's rifle scope.

Well acted all around. A tight screenplay that leaves no time for gaps (another reason this is a hard movie to break up for broadcast television). Definitely worth having.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Cop Movie Ever Made
Review: I've been a long time fan of Clint Eastwood, I just love his one-liners. The picture and sound quality on the DVD is superior for a movie this old. I wish they would release the rest of the Dirty Harry movies in DVD.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dirty Harry
Review: A superb thriller! Super music, a great performance by Eastwood, but an even better one by Andy Robinson as Scorpio! He truly was the benchmark of all evil who just had to be on the receiving end of Harry's 44. Scorpio was told the consequences of feeling lucky against the Magnum, but he just laughed and was blown into the stagnant pond!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Do You Feel Lucky?
Review: Dirty Harry is the film that introduced the titular character to the world. Clint Eastwood stars as a renegade San Francisco cop Harry Calahan, who is not afraid to go above the law to get his man. The movie focuses around his hunt for a killer who goes by the name of Scorpio. The film is not just a shoot 'em action movie, it is a tense thriller. One night scene in front of a large monument in which Harry thinks he has Scorpio cornered is extremely intense and thrilling and eerily shot. The movie does have it's fair share of violence, but it is not gratuitous. Mr. Eastwood is his stoic best as Calahan and he adds the right amount of sarcasm to the character. The film started a very lucrative franchise for Mr. Eastwood. Some of the sequels have been great movies (although it started to really tire in the late 80's), but none have matched the power and intensity of the original.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It's just OK
Review: Phony-looking blood, an interpretation by Eastwood that lacks sufficient humor (and he even punches the famous "six shots" speech in the wrong places), and a really fascist approach to law and order all add up to general mediocrity. So why does it work? Andy Robinson. For a thriller to be effective, you need a good bad guy, and Robinson took Scorpio as far as he could without ever quite going over the top. See it on video, by the way, and skip the TBS broadcasts -- it's not rated R for nothing. (On TV, you lose Eastwood's one genuinely funny line as well as a horrific shot of Robinson during the beating he's paid to have done to himself.)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: BANG
Review: do ya feel lucky? well do ya PUNK!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: HARRY is one DIRTY cop!
Review: I saw this movie for the first time and I could not believe my eyes or my ears. The first thing that took me by surprise was the fact that the sound was so great. Some may saw that the DVD sound is not the best, allot of the DVD I see that were movie are not in stereo, or they made them into two speaker stereo and that is not that good. This DVD has hi-fi Stereo and Surround sound. I think that the sound on this just as good as most of the DVD made today.

They do not make movies like this any more. They try but just cannot get the energy and force that this one has. This is the best cop movie I have ever seen. The DVD is good and set at a nice price I would recommend getting it. That is only IF YOU FELL LUCK!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite Cop Movie
Review: Dirty Harry is an excellent movie,directed by Don Siegel,and starring Clint Eastwood as hard nosed homocide cop Harry Callahan,who carries a .44 magnum.He's after a killer who calls himself Scorpio,(Andy Robinson)who has been terrorizing San Francisco,and Harry will basically stop at nothing to bring him in,even if it means violating all of Scorpio's rights.(why should a killer have more rights than his victims anyway?)It doesn't take Scorpio long to find out he's messing with the wrong cop.Overall,it's an excellent movie,(my favorite cop movie ever)and it's followed by four sequals,which often overshadow this original,which is far and away the best.


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