A compendium of Clint ripping through the SFPD rulebook?
How lucky can you get…?
He asks us directly.
Youve all heard him!
You have to ask yourself a question right now he says, Do I feel Lucky?
So lets look at each release in this box set separately shall we to see how they measure up.
The bad guys here are not afraid of being bad guys.
They will threaten women and children.
Eastwood may be a bit lanky to really be a running and leaping action hero.
Just watching some of his stiff moves is proof of that.
But what qualifies his Dirty Harry as one of the first true action heroes is three things.
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Just watch him standing awaiting the approaching school bus at the end.
The reaction on Andy Robinsons face says it all.
Its an awe inspiring moment, and its literally a man just standing there.
You know the bad guy is in some serious shit now.
Yes the most studied of the three.
The giant fing gun he carries.
Could be argued as an extension of the male ego, or even libido.
Its putting his money where his mouth is.
Not an assertion of male dominance of any kind.
And whats more, he knows how to use the damn thing!
And the climax of this film is an assertion of that.
So there we have it.
It is obviously still the best of the series.
ExtrasThe extras here are more than plentiful.
There is also a long documentary on Eastwoods career.
ExtrasMilius comes across like a real lover of guns in his commentary.
Which is sort of worrying really.
This gang act like a bunch of hippie revolutionaries with lots of guns.
So sadly there is very little thought going into their antics.
Or so it would seem.
The main draw here instead comes from the match up of the giant Eastwood and the Tiny Tyne Daly.
Dirty Harry movies were never supposed to end happy.
Not the good ones anyway.
But having said that,The Enforceris probably the funniest out of all the films.
The documentaries continue the trend in this box set this time looking at violence in cinema.
Of course the Do you Feel lucky Punk?
(which was never actually said this way) originated from the original.
This is also known for being the Eastwood-directed Dirty Harry movie.
Sadly its also where things started to really take a nose-dive quality wise.
The plot again is interesting enough.
A vigilante is out stalking those that had put her through a rape ordeal.
So its comes off more like a femaleDeath Wish, but Sondra Locke is no Charles Bronson!
But she was Eastwoods missus at the time, so what do we know?
This is probably the best-looking of the films, but it is also probably the most serious in tone.
Some of the fun is seriously lacking.
ExtrasSchickel gives another fascinating commentary that is full of information about Eastwood and his career.
There is only one other notable extra which is the half-hour documentary.
If anything its an interesting idea.
One thing that can be said about theDirty Harryfilms is that they are not too repetitive.
But sadly this outing is perhaps the most dated, despite being the most recent.
Rating:
1 out of 5
