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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The presence of Eastwood in an action role is enough to explain the movie's popularity, but when you see it you discover that the movie has a message with a vengeance. It is loosely based on 1970's headlines, and makes Eastwood a cop who is assigned to find a mysterious killer named Scorpio. The killer has kidnapped and killed various girls, he has tried to extract $200,000 ransom from the city, and in the film's climax he hijacks a school bus. The gimmick is that Eastwood is so filled with hatred for Scorpio that he violates the poor fiend's civil rights. more...
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3/4
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www.filmcritic.com - : Well punk, do ya feel lucky? Dirty Harry Callahan blasted onto the San Francisco scene with a .44 Magnum and an attitude that launched a thousand imitators. Eastwood's most memorable character we get, a super-fascinating story maybe not so much. But the chase for murder and ransom-man Scorpio is at least a reasonably good one. The Dirty Harry films declined over the years, but the original's one worth seeking out. more...
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4/5
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www.filmthreat.com - : In which, Clint Eastwood gives us the morally ambiguous cop for whom every red blooded white American male had always been longing. Hero as stalking killing machine. Eastwood's neo-fascist Dirty Harry was controversial in 1971, but today he seems to be the rule, at least in the world of movies. Even the most liberal of us seem to love seeing our movie cops kick ass. Miranda be damned. more...
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4/5
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