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Genres:
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Action /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Ted Post
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Actors:
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Mitch Ryan,
Margaret Avery,
Robert Urich,
Richard Devon,
Kip Niven,
Felton Perry,
Maurice Argent,
Bob McClurg,
Tony Giorgio,
Bob March,
Clint Eastwood,
Hal Holbrook,
David Soul,
Tim Matheson,
Jack Kosslyn
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)143
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Plot Summary:
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Several criminals who give birth to eluded the law are being gunned down by a cop on a motorcycle. Harry, who was reassigned to stakeout duty is assigned the at all events cause his superiors are sorry that this is some kind of combine war. But Harry suspects that they have a vigilante on their hands, quite possibly a cop.
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would like to have given 5 stars but...
I'd love to have given this film 5 stars but I'm not sure if that we be giving way to my prederiliction for violent tough guy movies.
This film is a classic. A successfull sequel to Dirty Harry, it is what Aliens is to the Alien trilogy, a real meat in the sandwhich of what has become an outstanding trilogy.(Well there are 'Other' Films in The Dirty Harry series but their not up to the first three.)
A real one to watch without the missus
Magnum Force
For years I have avoided watching any of the Dirty Harry sequels - as far as I'm concerned the original could not be bettered, and any reprise would rather lessen the impact of the original films downbeat ending. Having said that Magnum Force makes a fair stab of it, and crucially this retains the look of Dirty Harry - alternately sun-drenched and dismal cityscape brought to life by a pulsing 70's funk soundtrack. The story itself also contains a great central idea - making Dirty Harry confront his own form of tough justice by going against an entire subdepartment of vigilante cops who take the law into their own hands. Unfortnunately though the film never really gells as well as it should, with under par action sequences (the climax is particularly poor after all the build up) ...
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