Dead Pool

Pros: Tough cop Harry Callahan shows he has a sense of humor. Clint Eastwood.
Cons: Harry gives up his gun. Ludicrous chase scene. Story bankrupt of ideas.

The Dirty Harry series started out promisingly enough with Dirty Harry, the story of a maverick cop (in San Francisco of all places) who was interested in solving crimes rather than pandering to the namby-pamby denizens of left coast California. ...

Pros: It's a Dirty Harry movie. Clint Eastwood.
Cons: The silly threat from a remote controlled car.

This is the fourth installment in my Festival of the Clint. For this one we venture back to the year 1988, which happened to be the year I finished high school. Dinosaurs roamed the land, and the fifth and final Dirty Harry film hit the screens. The fans...

Pros: Callahan is the same as always
Cons: ...

Good old Inspector Harry Callahan has always been a favorite of mine and they couldn't have picked a better person to take on the role than Clint Eastwood. This is the final segment in the long running movie series that started with Callahan asking ...

Pros: Some of the acting. The basic plot.
Cons: Lacks many of the qualities that made the Dirty Harry film series popular.

Clint Eastwood's role as San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan in the ''Dirty Harry'' movie series drew to a close in the film The Dead Pool, which was released in 1988. There were only five films in the series, but most of the films made ...

Pros: A witty, well-acted and well-scripted B-movie actioner that deserves another chance.
Cons: Shoddy direction and a basic change of course from the original Don Siegel hit.

In a case of history repeating itself, around 1987-88, Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros. Pictures traded off passion projects. For Clint, it was the making of the Charlie Parker biopic Bird starring Forest Whitaker; for the studio, it was ...