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It is a performances centric movie

i must have seen a different film!!

A Masterpiece!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I loved it when I saw it in the theater when I was thirteen. It had action and a little bit of nudity. Everything anyone would want in a movie. However, now I think it stinks. Clint has made very few clunkers. His batting average is probably as good as the Duke himself, John Wayne. That said, "The Enforcer" is one a dud. It has a silly story and weak bad guys. It's like an R rated movies for kids.

I have a bit of problems with this flick. To be honest, there isn't that much of typical Dirty Harry style to see, yes, I know, he do has a one-liner, this time it's "marvellous" but somehow this flick let me down.It isn't the performances that are letting me down but the script itself. This time Callahan has a new partner, a woman and naturally it's against his nature to make a deal with her but after a while they do work fine together and you know that it will have a bad ending but somehow it's a bit too much of working together then the typical macho shoot to kill stuff.What was nice to see are the freeway bridges that were build in San Fran but were destroyed in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake. I still can remember the collapse of a section of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway. On the other hand at the end they are on the Alcatraz Island and have a look how terrible it was back then even when it was just opened for public. Not bad as a flick on it's own but not good for a Dirty Harry franchise. Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Back in the Eighties when I was still watching network TV, I used to catch Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in 'Cagney and Lacey', their female detective team-up in which they cooperated in both their professional and personal lives. I couldn't help thinking back then that it was Daly's role in "The Enforcer" that recommended her for the part in the TV series. Even when watching the movie today, Daly as a cop doesn't quite click with me, but that's probably just a personal bias. Even so, it bothered me that she got wasted at the end of the story, as her chemistry with Clint Eastwood seemed to improve over the course of the picture.Maybe you had to live during the era, but it seemed that right after the kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1973, action movies of the time described militant gangs with names like The Peoples' Revolutionary Strike Force and it used to bug me no end. Another one was the International Liberation Army from the 1977 TV flick "The Night They Took Miss Beautiful". All these liberation armies and strike forces and they never accomplished a thing except grabbing headlines and making a nuisance of themselves. Oh well.Certainly Harry Callahan didn't start out being an equal opportunity partner and given the situations he found himself in, was as far removed from political correctness territory as circumstances allowed. His training scenarios for new recruits were priceless, and he never did get far with his cruelty to animals exercise with Mrs. Grey from the mayor's office. Kate Moore (Daly) had to summon all of her intestinal fortitude to get beyond Harry's prescription of getting married and having kids; fortunately small arms training stood her well in taking out Sister Wanda (Samantha Doane) at the activist priest's church.Hey, I don't know if this was intentional or not, but remember the beat down Harry gave to the guy at the whorehouse? He used the plunger method on a guy named Buchinski (Robert Hoy), and I had to wonder if that wasn't a subliminal tribute to another action star of the Seventies, Charles Bronson. Bronson's real last name was Buchinski, I thought that was kind of cool.Well you just knew one of those Laws rockets would have to come in handy to close out the story. Dirty Harry liked to do things his own way, and what better way then to go out with a big bang. And to think, creepy Bobby saw it coming and couldn't do a thing about it.

It's the third Dirty Harry movie. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is as hard as ever. San Francisco is threatened by a terrorist group called, The People's Revolutionary Strike Force led by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). He lures 2 gas workers with a hot girl and kills them for their uniform. They killed Callahan's partner during a heist of military weapons. Callahan is forced to partner with Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) who has no street experience but lots of book smarts. She was promoted for political considerations for being female.It's a workable Dirty Harry movie. He's as inappropriate and violent as ever. Tyne Daly is pre-'Cagney & Lacey'. She does a compelling job as an inexperienced but strong-willed newbie. The thing that bothered me is the group of terrorists. They are part silly stereotypes and part artificial concoction. They don't really instill fear except maybe Maxwell. However he's more of a silly stereotype. I simply don't like the villains. The movie feels inferior to the first two movies.