April 21, 2012

Magnum Force (1973)

The second Dirty Harry film is far better than the first film. I think that the story is far better and the whole feel of the film was better than in DH. The film is about a group of rookies who seem to be taking the law into their own hands. At first I thought that it was just one guy and that was David Soul but when it turned out that there was more of them then it made the idea of rogue rookies even better. The introduction of Hal Holbrook was brilliant.

The final scene on the abandoned ship was funny and exciting in equal measure. I couldnt believe that Harry could walk/run/stagger onto the boat with no one noticing or saying anything but as the story moved along and the film got even better. Generally the whole film worked a lot better than DH. I thought that Clint Eastwood got a better handle of the character than in the first one and he was surrounded by very good actors that helped make some of the weaker moments go by very quickly.

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