The fourth Dirty Harry film and certainly the worst. It's no surprise that Clint Eastwood would choose to star in this major snooze (it was the huge box-office hit that his previous two films were not), but why direct it too? Other than the classic line ("Go ahead, make my day") and the scene it appears in, "Sudden Impact" makes no impact. Eastwood's leisurely directing style, a perfect match for more thoughtful material ("Unforgiven," "Mystic River") is not at all suitable here. Sondra Locke is just boring. The next film in the series (also the last), "The Dead Pool," is a lot more fun.
Review of Sudden Impact
