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The Dead Pool (1988) 6.3
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Reviews: 112 user | 45 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. Director:Buddy Van HornWriters:Harry Julian Fink (characters), Rita M. Fink (characters) (as R.M. Fink) , 4 more credits » |
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Plot Synopsis
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Harry Callahan - or Dirty Harry as he is known from the previous four movies in this series - is investigating a strange betting game. A list of local celebrities has been handed out, and bets are being taken on who will be the first to die. Things start to get interesting when the name 'Harry Callahan' appears on the list. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
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Dirty Harry Just Learned A New GameParents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
13 July 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dirty Harry in The Dead Pool See more »Box Office
Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$37,903,295 (USA)Company Credits
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None of the patrons working out in the gym have any weights loaded on their exercise equipment. This is not a mistake, but most likely intentional because repeated takes in the scene would exhaust the actors. See more »Goofs
In the remote control car chase scene, when the toy car goes under Harry's car, the taillights are an Oldsmobile Delta 88. During the rest of the scene, Harry is driving an Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. See more »Quotes
Harry Callahan: Do you like cops?Samantha Walker: As long as they're not in my rearview mirror.
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This was altogether too simple for the critics back in '88 -- the whole idea was to point the barrel of the joke right back at the criticism.
Whereas the previous Dirty Harry features sat on a platform of utter contempt for bureaucrats and political correctness, here it's expanded to contempt for journalists, and especially the subspecies of 'media critics'. As if they couldn't make it clearer, a 'movie critic' is murdered, and treated as an occurrence of 'death of celebrities by threes'.
Yes, this is explicitly about movie making; the previous four movies suffered from poor supporting casts that only got in the way of the narrative. Here Van Horn deliberately employs good actors to play bad genre roles and thus turns the series on its head.
Along the way, we get a nice comment on "Bullitt", this time deflating the over touted car chase with a gag: an explosives laden model '63 Z06 (instead of a fastback Mustang, to drive home the point).
By this time, the .44 Magnum is treated as a character, with a 'voice' that rolls off the cityscape like thunder...the bad guys run at the mere sight of it. To put the icing on the 'man with the biggest gun' motif, Clint dispatches the villain with an earlier one liner ("you're S.O.L.") and a movie prop harpoon. The elaborate conflation of sexual double entendre, humor and cowboy justice went soaring over many heads. Arnold wishes he was half this funny in "Last Action Hero".
Ah, we miss Harry...but his retirement to Carmel was both serendipitous and necessary. By the end of this, he's killed off every cartoon bad guy left in the movie universe, paving the way for both the dimensional villains of "Die Hard" and its ilk, AND the hosannas bestowed on "Unforgiven".