This movie was fun to watch, but I couldn't help but note all of the flaws and bad twists.
This is basically an anti-Dirty Harry movie, with it being so against violence as many of Eastwoods later films are. This movie seems to be stuck in between Eastwood's older movies and his newer ones. It has the older elements of the tough wise-cracking cop, the woman falling for the protagonist, the "no rules" concept he abides by. There's newer elements too such as showing how violence is bad and all of that stuff. However the mix isn't exactly perfect. Plus there are a lot of things that occur in this movie that I didn't catch onto.
Eastwood is pretty good as Terry McCaleb, a tough cop who shows that he is not so tough at the same time. Jeff Daniels really steals the show as Buddy No one, McCaleb's goofy neighbor and friend. Wanda de Jesus is decent as the attractive Graciella Rivers, the woman who hires McCaleb to find out who murdered her sister. Tina Lifford is good as Detective Jaye Winston, McCaleb's cop friend. Paul Rodriguez is terrible as Detective Arrango, McCaleb's buddy. I don't know if he's supposed to be stupid or funny, either way the humor went right by me.
Over all, not too bad of a movie, but definitely one of Eastwood's weakest that I've seen so far.
6/10.
This is basically an anti-Dirty Harry movie, with it being so against violence as many of Eastwoods later films are. This movie seems to be stuck in between Eastwood's older movies and his newer ones. It has the older elements of the tough wise-cracking cop, the woman falling for the protagonist, the "no rules" concept he abides by. There's newer elements too such as showing how violence is bad and all of that stuff. However the mix isn't exactly perfect. Plus there are a lot of things that occur in this movie that I didn't catch onto.
Eastwood is pretty good as Terry McCaleb, a tough cop who shows that he is not so tough at the same time. Jeff Daniels really steals the show as Buddy No one, McCaleb's goofy neighbor and friend. Wanda de Jesus is decent as the attractive Graciella Rivers, the woman who hires McCaleb to find out who murdered her sister. Tina Lifford is good as Detective Jaye Winston, McCaleb's cop friend. Paul Rodriguez is terrible as Detective Arrango, McCaleb's buddy. I don't know if he's supposed to be stupid or funny, either way the humor went right by me.
Over all, not too bad of a movie, but definitely one of Eastwood's weakest that I've seen so far.
6/10.