The Dead Pool

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Sams K I love this. Also some easter eggs for GNR fans... Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/24/24 Full Review Aender S The worst of the Dirty Harry movies. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 04/16/24 Full Review Alec B What a silly note for this series to end on (there are remote control car bombs, metacommentary, and a Chekhov's harpoon gun) but given how dour the previous entries often were, perhaps they just wanted to have some fun? In any case its a bit of a mess that doesn't really earn a lot of what it tries to do in the finale. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Eye C My favorite from the Dirty Harry franchise, good story. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/24 Full Review Matthew D Patricia Clarkson can do no wrong. Clint Eastwood's stunt double and movie director Buddy Van Horn's Dirty Harry sequel is tough, funny, and mean. Van Horn's action thriller The Dead Pool (1988) is a blast. Van Horn's direction lets the shadowy scenes look incredible, the shootouts feel exciting, and the dialogue riveting. It's almost a slasher with Dirty Harry as the detective trying to figure out what is happening. I found his playful sendup of fame seekers and celebrity deaths to be a riot. I did not expect the final Dirty Harry film to be so amusing. The cast is insane with a young Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, and even Jim Carrey here. Writers Steve Sharon, Sandy Shaw, and Duke Pearson came up with a fun story concept about predicting celebrity deaths in a sick game called The Dead Pool. Spoofing rockstar music videos and celebrity deaths in threes is a lot of fun. The Dead Pool critiques the public's sick fascination with celebrity deaths. Editor Ron Spang does really clever cuts for a fast pace, that also lets the conversations and interrogations work at their own pace. Cinematographer Jack N. Green's uses creative camera panning and tilts with all sorts of playful angles. I love the romantic way he shoots Patricia Clarkson. Clint Eastwood is tough, mean, and funny as the cool hard boiled Inspector Harry Callahan. He just shoots first, asks questions never, regardless if civilians are present. It's a riot to watch Eastwood blow away crooks with reckless abandon and extreme prejudice. Eastwood grimaces at the idea of Dirty Harry dealing with fame and it's so funny. Patricia Clarkson is drop dead gorgeous as the young blonde reporter lady Samantha Walker. She's clearly just exploiting the deaths of celebrities for a quick news story, but Clarkson is so pretty and charming that she's delightful to watch. She seems to have no morals or ethics, but she is so funny and naturally charismatic. Dirty Harry is right when he says, "blood sells." Liam Neeson is hilarious as the super Irish horror movie director Peter Swan. Hearing his thick accent and seeing Neeson so young is a trip. He definitely has few morals as a director as his character bets on celebrity death probabilities. Neeson is totally unhinged here in an entertaining turn. Jim Carrey is hilarious as rockstar and heroin user Johnny Squares with his Guns ‘n Roses music video lip syncing. You can see the real hard rock band Guns N' Roses cameo at his funeral! Diego Chairs is fun as the giant prisoner Butcher. Evan C. Kim is awesome as the likable, cool, funny, and skilled martial artist Inspector Al Quan. He makes for the best and most interesting cop partner to Eastwood's Dirty Harry. He's useful and very fun. Composer Lalo Schifrin's film score rules with huge synth lines in the midst of oddball jazz and rock songs. There's so many different genres within The Dead Pool. Makeup artist Monty Westmore makes Patricia Clarkson into the femme fatale she was destined to be as an actress. In all, The Dead Pool is a fantastic and fun finale to the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, and Liam Neeson ensure The Dead Pool is a scream! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/07/23 Full Review Giorgio S This movie is 1h 29 hours long and it's so boring that I would rather watch Morbius for the third time instead of this. This movid has great actors like Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson,and they are so wasted that if they were or not in the movie it would have been the same thing Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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