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06/05/02
Absolute Power (1997)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:18
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this slick political thriller, an emotionally disconnected, aesthetically refined master thief is out for one final score before retiring to his treasure-lined hideaway. But during a robbery at... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn
Director: Clint Eastwood
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10/18/08
The picture might have gotten by if Eastwood had given it some impudent wit. But he directs to the rhythm of his facial muscles.
01/01/00
Sadly, any lofty artistic aspirations are quickly undone by the sheer ill-advised audacity of the story.
01/01/00
Can't believe William Goldman wrote this crap, or that Eastwood, Hackman, Harris, and Davis bothered to get involved with it either.
06/18/02
Clint Eastwood...produced, directed and stars in this generally lunatic, occasionally pathetic and more often comically inept endeavor.
01/01/00
The script calls for no bold statements about the politics of the White House, which makes the film rather weak in purpose.
01/01/00
The plot and its resolution requires simply too much disbelief to be suspended by the audience...
08/29/03
Mr. Hackman languishes in the smallish role of a White House buffoon, with Judy Davis equally cartoonish as his witchy chief of staff.
05/20/03
Top CriticOne begins to long for a good explosion.
08/22/08
This is just a better makeup job on the same misogynist theme: live woman = nothing; dead woman = power.
01/01/00
For all the suspense the film does generate, the fairly flat climax is a disappointing payoff.
09/17/05
Dunderheaded fantasy about noble thieves and corrupt commander-in-chiefs.
05/03/05
Um filme inconstante que alterna bons momentos com outros muito fracos.
05/31/02
...suffers from the same pathology as Bridges of Madison County; a weakness of source material.
12/31/04
Ultimately, this is a thriller in vain search of credible thrills.
04/12/02
Contrived and dawdling.
07/23/07
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