Sudden Impact

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Sudden Impact was a step down from parts 2 and 3 of the Dirty Harry series, but still enjoyable. This was the only movie in the series directed by Clint Eastwood's own mother fucking self, and that's a good thing, because it is shot really well. The problem is really more with the screenplay, which just feels lazy at times. Not only does Harry randomly stumble onto 2 or 3 crimes in the movie that have nothing to do with the rest of the plot, but there are 2 subplots about criminals trying to murder Harry for revenge. Then, both subplots are abandoned maybe half way through the movie. It's like they realized that the main plot wasn't enough to carry a feature film, so they just added a lot of extra action that had nothing to do with anything else. Now, don't get me wrong, it's good action, but a little more care could have been put into working the action into a coherent story.