Today I watched the second Dirty Harry film, Magnum Force. This film expands on the Harry Callahan character by showing us his home life and giving him a little romance on the side. harry is still a cop who works by his own set of rules, but this time he stays inside the law, though he never hesitates to use his gun to dispatch a criminal.
In Magnum Force someone is killing the top level criminals in San Francisco. They are systematically being assassinated one by one. When Harry is put on the case he begins to suspect it might be a cop who has taken on the job of prosecutor, judge and executioner. As he investigates he also deals with a plane hijacking at SFO and an armed robbery at the local Cost Plus market.
The films a good police procedural and makes great use of San Francisco locations but it lacks the freshness of the first film. The film never gives an explanation why harry is still working even though he threw his badge away in the first film.
The film made $44 million at the box office and was financially more successful than Dirty Harry. By making the sequel Eastwood ensure that Dirty Harry would become the character he would be most identified with for the rest of his career.
At The Movie House rating *** stars
1 comment:
Your're right, this film is not as good as the first, but its not far off...I'd call this a classic film and would give it 4 stars...He just keeps you in it until the end...and those creepy cops help too...Notice, I am not commenting on your rating as I think you give it a good review and the rating is simply a matter of opinion...in addition, your rating copincides with your review...My favorite part of this whole blog is reviewing your reviews
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