Rent Sudden Impact (1983)
3.4 of 5 from 101 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
- Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. Clint Eastwood scores again in Harry's fourth film (which he also directs), tracking a traumatised rape victim (Sondra Locke) who coldly guns down her bygone attackers - and, as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
- Actors:
- Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake, Audrie Neenan, Jack Thibeau, Michael Currie, Albert Popwell, Mark Keyloun, Kevyn Major Howard, Bette Ford, Nancy Parsons, Joe Bellan, Wendell Wellman, Mara Corday, Russ McCubbin, Robert Sutton, Nancy Fish, Carmen Argenziano
- Directors:
- Clint Eastwood
- Producers:
- Clint Eastwood
- Writers:
- Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Joseph Stinson, Earl E. Smith, Charles B. Pierce, Dean Riesner
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Getting to Know: Clint Eastwood
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/06/2008
- Run Time:
- 117 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 1.0, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Historian/Eastwood Biographer Richard Schickel
- New Featurette 'The Evolution of Clint Eastwood'
- 'Dirty Harry' Movies Trailer Gallery
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Reviews (1) of Sudden Impact
Very average stuff - Sudden Impact review by RP
This is the fourth of the five 'Dirty Harry' films, made 12 years after the original, and the only one directed by Clint himself. It also stars Sondra Locke who was Clint's long-term partner...
By 1983 the 'Dirty' Harry Callahan franchise was looking increasingly old fashioned, not only because Clint was now 53 but also the series had lost its freshness and novelty. Harry Callahan is referred to in the film as a 'dinosaur' and this is not far from the truth, not only because of his policing methods (blast all baddies with a .44 magnum) but also a shortage of ideas and believable plot lines. Here, a woman serial killer is on a revenge rampage, shooting her victims first in the nether regions, then in the head. Clint single handedly (of course) tracks her down with (of course) no help from the local cops and (of course) metes out his own form of summary justice to the remaining baddies and his own idea of justice to the killer.
This isn't the worst of the 'Dirty Harry' films (that's reserved for the last one) but it really is very average stuff. 3/5 stars.
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