twh@mb2c.UUCP (Darth Hitchcock) (12/10/83)
Dirty Harry is at it again !!! Harry is chased by the Mafia and pursues a revenge driven rape victim (Sondra Locke). Things I didn't like: 1) He brings out the "Automag" supposedly to penetrate the Mafia's bullet proof cars, then never uses it as such ! Not only that, but the Mafia men aren't seen again ! TOO BAD ! 2) Why MUST Sondra Locke be in ALMOST EVERY Eastwood movie ? Dirty Harry got somewhat side tracked because of it. Sondra may be good for Eastwood, but she is NOT for Dirty Harry ! Things I did: 1) The elevator scene where he grabs the dog dung by the necktie and halls him across the elevator. 2) Hiding in the can. 3) The handling of the 38 special at the end. ( predictable. . . I know ) Quite entertaining.
Caro.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (12/12/83)
Sudden Impact is the latest Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood rootin' tootin'
shoot 'em up flick. If you liked Dirty Harry, you'll LOVE Sudden
Impact! This movie was a feast of violence and heavy-artillery street
fighting. See Harry dodge machine gun bullets, malatov cocktails, and
vicious dogs!
Everyone knows that old saw about "the sequel ain't never gooder'n the
first movie." Well, Sudden Impact is the exception that proves the
rule. This movie has a story, by God! The theme is a classic one:
revenge. A young, sensitive \artiste/ goes on a methodical man-hunt for
the men (and woman!) that gang raped her and her 16-year-old sister
under the boardwalk of a San Paulo (really Santa Cruz) carnival. Her
sister, as a result of the experience, ends up doing a good impression
of a eggplant up in Napa ("vegetable, that is ... get it? ... pay
attention, son. How y'all gonna learn to be funny like me less'n ya pay
attention!?")
The young artist, played by
<God-I-wish-I-could-remember-that-actor's(generic)-name>, is as cool as
ice. Her MO is to walk up to the victim, fire her .38 once into the
victim's crotch, and again into the victim's forehead, in cold blood.
But mere words can't do justice to the fantastic visual effect of the
victim getting a "38 caliber vasectomy"[from the movie].
But this is not a gorey film. This is not a Chainsaw Massacre. All of
the violent scenes are done quite tastefully. And there is plenty of
comedy relief in between the acts of violence (look especially for
"Meat-Head" the wonder bull-dog.) None of the violence is gratuitous;
even the Mob "hit" with machine guns and automatic weapons is well
plotted. Folks, there's not a klinker in this entire movie.
Harry has two classic lines in the movie that the sharp film-fanatic
should watch out for. One is, "Go ahead. MAKE my DAY!" and the other
is "Swell." Classic, classic!
But the real star of the show, of course, is the air-cooled AutoMag 44.
We're talking armor piercing bullets! We're talking 300 grain
cartridges! We're talking about a chrome plated beauty that saves the
day in the final scene (which, paradoxically, happens at night.) We're
talking about artillery that Admiral Nelson himself would have been
proud of.
Violence fans, this movie is a must! The whole theatre cheered every
time Harry pulled out his gun. What a man! What an American!
On the Commodore's scale of Merit (six bells being all's well), this
movie gets a six!
Commodore Perrycarey@seismo.UUCP (Marie Carey) (12/14/83)
"Sudden Impact" is also produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. I must say that he did this Dirty Harry flick in taste. The woman in the movie is Sondra Locke, who Eastwood left his wife of 25 years for. I believe they met when they starred together in "The Outlaw Josey Wales", but I may be mistaken. That is the first movie I saw them in together and it seems from then on, she has been in almost all of his movies. I think that "Sudden Impact" was the best acting I have seen her produce though. Also the violence in the movie is not as bad as I thought it would be. It was not gory at all. I am impressed by that because it would have been so easy for a Dirty Harry flick to be extremely violent and gory. I also liked the plot a great deal.
usadaca@uiucuxc.UUCP (12/16/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1453600:uiucuxc:31100002:000:105 uiucuxc!usadaca Dec 15 08:39:00 1983 the ACTRESS in question is, of course, Sandra Locke, a regular in all recent Clint Eastwood films! :