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www.filmcritic.com - : The fourth installment in the Dirty Harry series (7 years after the third) has the unlikely tale of Eastwood's Callahan after a murderous woman bend on revenge against the men who raped her and her sister 10 years earlier. Features the first appearance of ''Go ahead, make my day.'' Also note that the movie was later aped as Basic Instinct, right down to the San Francisco setting. more...
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2.5/
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www.filmthreat.com - : Boy did Ronald Reagan love this movie! He should have, because after all, he was the nation's cheerleader for the right-wing movement that made Harry fashionable again. It's always been my contention that Communist Russia fell because of their growing fascination with American Pop Culture, but I can't really argue with anyone who traces a straight line between this movie, Ron's fascination with that ''make my day'' catch phrase, and the end of the red threat. more...
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3/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Most of what you hear about pop art and pop culture is pure hype. But there comes a moment about halfway through ''Sudden Impact,'' the new Dirty Harry movie, when you realize that Harry has achieved some kind of legitimate pop status, as the purest distillation in the movies of the spirit of vengeance. To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice. more...
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3/4
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