Dirty Harry (1971)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:36
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: A tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a decade of rising crime, DIRTY HARRY propelled Clint Eastwood's career into the... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon
Director: Don Siegel
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Reviews for Dirty Harry
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Siegel makes excellent use of San Francisco locations, even if Harry makes a few implausible leaps across town from time to time. The Kezar Stadium showdown in particular is a keeper. Full Review |
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Little in Dirty Harry aims above the barely cognizant. Full Review |
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4.0/5 |
Don Siegel's Dirty Harry is an apt example of a film with a vision that few people perceive beyond its violent, flamboyant surfaces. If director Siegel might be a bit uncomfortable with a close reading of his movie, he also might be pleased that the... Full Review |
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... as Inspector Harry Callahan, known to the squad as Dirty Harry, Eastwood turned his frontier persona into an urban cowboy on the mean streets of our urban world. Full Review |
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5/5 |
If you don't buy this sociological stuff and consider Dirty Harry to be little more than an above average B-picture, it's impossible to deny it is a superb action movie. Full Review |
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7/10 |
...a taut, well-paced cop thriller with two solid adversaries in conflict. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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Clint Eastwood, in the title role, is a superhero whose antics become almost satire. Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A fascist film, or a film about a fascist cop? Either way, this is suspenseful, energetic stuff. Full Review |
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A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The Eastwood-Siegel combo packs more of a punch every year.
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No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading. Full Review |
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Seminal law-and-order cinema. Full Review |
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5/5 |
An all-time great that keeps getting better with age. Andrew Robinson's Scorpio gets my vote for the most loathsome movie villain ever.
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4/5 |
The man with no name gets a nickname and a badge.
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CommentLatest News for Dirty Harry
May 11, 2006:
Dirty Harry Gets a Video Game and an HD Facelift
Big fan of the "Dirty Harry" series? Well then get ready for an all-new video game version of the angry cop's violent adventures (a game that will feature the voice... More...
March 21, 2006:
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October 06, 2005:
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June 28, 2005:
Fox Plans to Deliver Some Multiplex "Payne"
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