Though I give this film a '5', take Clint out of the lead role and this it drops to a turkey with a rating of '3' (if I'm feeling charitable that day).
What's going on here? Deputy Coogan leaves Arizona for New York to bring home a wanted felon. He pisses off the local police while getting involved in a few conflicts highlighted by really crappy fight sequences. He meets a laughably clueless woman whose part was clearly written by someone who saw June Cleaver as dangerously progressive. Naive caricatures of the Sixties Drug Culture abound. Coogan eventually gets his man, the locals forgive Coogan his meddling, the airhead sees Coogan off despite the way he cruelly used her, and Coogan happily shares a smoke with the perp who tried to kill him. You'll strain yourself looking for the plot herein.
Ugh ... this is a waste of celluloid. Why on Earth this is available on DVD in the U.S., but neither Reds nor A Fistful Of Dynamite are, boggles the mind.
On the other hand, it's Clint, and he does redeem it to an extent. And it's not as bad as Bronco Billy or Space Cowboys.
Viewers familiar with Dirty Harry will note the familiar action-sequence and sky-view fadaway techniques of director Don Seigel.
What's going on here? Deputy Coogan leaves Arizona for New York to bring home a wanted felon. He pisses off the local police while getting involved in a few conflicts highlighted by really crappy fight sequences. He meets a laughably clueless woman whose part was clearly written by someone who saw June Cleaver as dangerously progressive. Naive caricatures of the Sixties Drug Culture abound. Coogan eventually gets his man, the locals forgive Coogan his meddling, the airhead sees Coogan off despite the way he cruelly used her, and Coogan happily shares a smoke with the perp who tried to kill him. You'll strain yourself looking for the plot herein.
Ugh ... this is a waste of celluloid. Why on Earth this is available on DVD in the U.S., but neither Reds nor A Fistful Of Dynamite are, boggles the mind.
On the other hand, it's Clint, and he does redeem it to an extent. And it's not as bad as Bronco Billy or Space Cowboys.
Viewers familiar with Dirty Harry will note the familiar action-sequence and sky-view fadaway techniques of director Don Seigel.
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