This is the fifth and final film to feature San Francisco detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan, it is also the lightest of the five featuring more humour and a bit less violence.
The film opens with two plot strands; after sending a local mob boss to prison Harry is targeted by his henchmen in revenge, at the same time we see somebody writing a list of local celebrities which includes the Harry who is in the spotlight after the trial. Soon after a rock singer, played by Jim Carrey in an early role, dies and Harry and his new partner are called in to investigate. At first it looks like a routine overdose until his name is found on the "dead pool list" discovered on somebody killed in a robbery.
This leads Harry to the low budget horror film director Peter Swan on whose list the dead singer's name was along with Harry who isn't too amused. After a run in with the media Harry finds himself going to dinner with a female reporter who ends up part of the news rather than just recording it.
I thought this film was a step up from Sudden Impact, the previous film in the series, largely because the film was back where it belongs in San Francisco but also he was once again with a partner and the story was more fun. While Clint Eastwood was getting a bit old for the role he still played it well, the other actors were pretty good too. The most memorable scene in the film has to be a rather unusual take on the classic car chase, this one is different as Harry is chased by a remote controlled toy car which contains a bomb.
While this isn't one of Clint Eastwood's best films I'd certainly recommend it to fans of the early Dirty Harry films and for people for like cop films in general.
The film opens with two plot strands; after sending a local mob boss to prison Harry is targeted by his henchmen in revenge, at the same time we see somebody writing a list of local celebrities which includes the Harry who is in the spotlight after the trial. Soon after a rock singer, played by Jim Carrey in an early role, dies and Harry and his new partner are called in to investigate. At first it looks like a routine overdose until his name is found on the "dead pool list" discovered on somebody killed in a robbery.
This leads Harry to the low budget horror film director Peter Swan on whose list the dead singer's name was along with Harry who isn't too amused. After a run in with the media Harry finds himself going to dinner with a female reporter who ends up part of the news rather than just recording it.
I thought this film was a step up from Sudden Impact, the previous film in the series, largely because the film was back where it belongs in San Francisco but also he was once again with a partner and the story was more fun. While Clint Eastwood was getting a bit old for the role he still played it well, the other actors were pretty good too. The most memorable scene in the film has to be a rather unusual take on the classic car chase, this one is different as Harry is chased by a remote controlled toy car which contains a bomb.
While this isn't one of Clint Eastwood's best films I'd certainly recommend it to fans of the early Dirty Harry films and for people for like cop films in general.