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Summary: Still packs a wallop
Review: Thirty years later and it's still controversial -- now that's a sign of a great film. Even if you despise the idea of a vigilante cop, you can't help but get sucked into this exciting and tough cop thriller. It's sharp and gritty, and the dialogue is tough enough to break your speakers.
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Summary: Riveting
Review: No doubt about it, Clint Eastwood's best movie eve
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Summary: Eastwood's Best Movie!
Review: The best cops & robbers film ever made! Eastwood is Dirty Harry, a tough cop who will stop at nothing to catch, Scorpio, a psychotic rooftop sniper, played by Andy Robinson. Siegel's direction is top-notch, and the suspense is tight-paced. One of my favorite movies.
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Summary: A first-rate cop flick
Review: This is one of the all time great suspense movies. Eastwood is superb as the title character, delivering one-liners before they were called one-liners and showing a depth and range to his character that most action movies neglect to bother with. All good action movies need a great villian and the serial killer Scorpio is both ruthless and insane, brilliantly acted by Robinson. It seems most cop movies nowadays rely on the buddy formula because no one actor can carry a movie anymore; this is the exception. And if you have a dark sense of humor Eastwood is amazingly funny too, when you'd least expect it. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Awsome
Review: I'm a teenager, so I don't care much for older movies. Then I got into Clint's newer stuff (e.g. In the Line of Fire, and Absolute Power) so I decided to plop the whopping $0.49 for it. Boy what a suprise. An edgy thriller with action and a plot out of it's time. See this movie.
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Summary: Jim Emerson's review is misguided at best.
Review: Jim Emerson's review states that Harry disregards the law in pursuit of justice. Not True! Harry is motivated by justice and respect for the law, and is hampered by political posturing of local officials. "Magnum Force" demonstrates that Harry will not bend the law or resort to vigilantism.
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Summary: CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT
Review: This movie is about conservatives and how they must battle against the oppressive forces of communism. It was written by the greatest screenwriter and director ever, because he is a conservative.This movie makes me wonder if somebody saw a screenplay I wrote a few years ago and stole my idea. It was called "A Savage Campaign." In it, a politician and a murder take care of the daughter, whose wife finds out about the plan. The democratic senator is corrupt and goes to the KKK. When the plot is revealed, it is finally stopped by Barry Bonds, who I consider to be baseball's Superman. When I pitched this idea to many Hollywood executives they thought it sounded great, but they wanted me to change the democrat to a republican. All men yearn to be free. This movie is about how the system does not care for law and justice. But the American people do. God bless you all.
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Summary: THE HOUR OF THE .44 MAGNUM.
Review: Smith & Wesson should pay Clint a royalty everytime a Model 29 is sold. While DIRTY HARRY is truely the hour of the .44 Magnum, the film is one of Hollywood's greatest thrillers and it birthed a character to be emulated but never equaled. DIRTY HARRY is a film of incredible suspense, with Donald Siegel's direction becoming a benchmark for the genre. The movie's legacy is well documented: Sinatra, McQueen, Newman and The Duke, turned it down. History has proved them correct. Without Clint, this one becomes a late show fill in run to the point of adnauseum. Instead it's a timeless classic with every element flawless. Harry Guardino is his usual steady self as Lt. Al Bressler and Reni Santori does a great turn as Chico Gonzalez, Harry's ill fated partner. The Bruce Surtees photograhy is stunning.
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Summary: The Definative Cop Movie
Review: Sure some of the 70's hairstyles and wardrobe choices are tough to look at 30 years later....but once you get beyond that, "Dirty Harry" is a timeless classic. This movie set the standard for Cop movies in much the same way "Godfather" is the standard for gangster flicks. What is now considered action film cliche's, "Dirty Harry" created; the tough loner cop who gets saddled with an unwanted partner, (usually a partner that is lucky to make it past the halfway point), the cop that breaks all of the rules to bring the bad guy to justice, the cop that has his superiors and city hall breathing down his neck because of his loose canon tactics. Sure..it sounds like I am describing almost any cop movie from the "Lethal Weapon" series or almost any Steven Seagal film...but Dirty Harry started it all, and does it so much better than the scores of imitators that followed. Also, the sniper killer storyline seems even more timely, especially to us folks in the Baltimore and DC area after the sniper killings around here from a couple years ago. As much as I enjoy Clint Eastwood's westerns, he was made to play the hard-boiled detective. Now that Eastwood is finally getting some respect from Hollywood with Oscar's and other award nominations, it's fun to go back and see his earlier films. But I don't recommend you buy the "Dirty Harry" dvd on it's own, as there is now a "Dirty Harry Collection" available, with the original, plus it's four very good sequels. Pick that up instead and enjoy an entire weekend of Harry Callahan.
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Summary: Footnote
Review: What can I possibly add to the volumes of praise that this classic has so richly earned over the years? Frankly, nothing. Just an ironic and probably meaningless footnote. If you ever get a chance to see Stallone's cartoonishly over-the-top Cobra from the mid-eighties, look for our favorite Scorpio killer, Andy Robinson, billed alongside Sly as "Andrew Robinson" playing an uptight cop who at one point, when the rogue Italian Stallion enforcer goes to smack him, whines loudly, "He's the psycho!"
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