Rent The Rookie (1991)
3.0 of 5 from 80 ratings
1h 56min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Packing years of experience and a .45, LAPD Detective Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) figures he's got all the help he needs. He's also got all the help he doesn't need: a by-the-book newcomer partner (Charlie Sheen). Each one reluctantly relies on the other to stop a killer-elite auto theft gang. Co-stars include Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle and Tom Skerritt. A ™ freeway becomes an 80-mph bumper car game. A barrio bar busts open like a giant pinata. The two drive through a wall to escape an exploding building...five stories up. Fasten your seatbelt.
- Actors:
- Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara-Flynne Boyle, Lara Flynn Boyle, Marco Rodríguez, Pete Randall, Donna Mitchell, Xander Berkeley, Pepe Serna, Tony Plana, David Sherrill, Hal Williams, Lloyd Nelson, Pat DuVal, Mara Corday, Jerry Schumacher, Matt McKenzie
- Directors:
- Clint Eastwood
- Producers:
- David Valdes, Howard Kazanjian, Steven Siebert
- Writers:
- Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Clint Eastwood, Top 10 Films By Year, Top Films of 1990: Vol. 1
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/06/2010
- Run Time:
- 121 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital Stereo, German Dolby Digital 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital 2.0, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Flemish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Greek, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
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Reviews (1) of The Rookie
Supposedly a comedy cop/buddy/action movie - but it's dire - The Rookie review by RP
Clint Eastwood is one of my favourite actors and directors and I've been viewing again some of his films that I haven't seen for a long time - and having now seen 'The Rookie' after a gap of close to 25 years, I now remember that there's a good reason that I've not seen it a second time in that period.
This is an awful film. I think it's supposed to a comedy cop/buddy/action movie, but the plot is so ludicrous, the script poor (there are some abysmal one-liners and far too much f-ing and blinding), with ridiculous stunts and silly 'action' sequences, the acting half-hearted, and the introduction of half-baked sex scenes is just embarrassing. And that's without mentioning spraying half of California with enough bullets to kill an army - but not, apparently, Mr Eastwood. And it's not funny.
This film falls between the period just before Clint settled down into his 'grumpy old man' roles (he was 60 when this was made) and is maybe an attempt to reprise his success with the 'Any Which Way...' films. If so, it is an abysmal failure.
Sorry Clint, but this one is so dire that I can only give it 2/5 stars - and that's being generous.
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