The Dead Pool Details

The Dirty Harry series had always been subject to the law of diminishing returns, and this final instalment sets a new low. By now the character of Harry Callaghan has been shorn of any of the interesting morality issues of the original film and is just another tough cop. What makes this film so dispiriting is that buried within it is the seed of a good idea: a group of rich people betting on which celebrity will die next, with Harry himself being added to the list. Unfortunately this aspect turns out to be almost irrelevant to the plot of the film, with the dire script missing every opportunity to wring some drama out of the storyline, with a dull and uninteresting typical mad serial killer turning out to be the bad guy. Numerous cringe inducing moments pepper the film: Clint?s sidekick turning out to be a kung-fu expert; Clint stepping out of the fog in slow-mo armed with a bazooka-sized harpoon-gun; Liam Neeson as the worlds least convincing horror-film director (currently making ?Hotel Satan?) and the series low-point of Jim Carrey gurning and miming along to Guns N? Roses. Along the way only the most bizarre car chase ever filmed (Clint?s car being chased by a bomb-laden radio-controlled toy car) provides some momentary distraction, but shackled to the dire script this film is dead on arrival.

The Dirty Harry series had always been subject to the law of diminishing returns, and this final instalment sets a new low. By now the character of Harry Callaghan has been shorn of any of the interesting morality issues of the original film and is just another tough cop. What makes this film so dispiriting is that buried within it is the seed of a good idea: a group of rich people betting on which celebrity will die next, with Harry himself being added to the list. Unfortunately this aspect turns out to be almost irrelevant to the plot of the film, with the dire script missing every opportunity to wring some drama out of the storyline, with a dull and uninteresting typical mad serial killer turning out to be the bad guy. Numerous cringe inducing moments pepper the film: Clint?s sidekick turning out to be a kung-fu expert; Clint stepping out of the fog in slow-mo armed with a bazooka-sized harpoon-gun; Liam Neeson as the worlds least convincing horror-film director (currently making ?Hotel Satan?) and the series low-point of Jim Carrey gurning and miming along to Guns N? Roses. Along the way only the most bizarre car chase ever filmed (Clint?s car being chased by a bomb-laden radio-controlled toy car) provides some momentary distraction, but shackled to the dire script this film is dead on arrival.