Dirty Harry: Dead Pool
I’m a big fan of Clint Eastwood, and the Dirty Harry franchise is one for the ages. I love the 1971 original, Magnum Force and Sudden Impact are both classics and even The Enforcer, the series’ uneven third installment, is still worth its 96 minute run. Unfortunately, the series crapped out with its fifth and final installment, the 1988 film The Dead Pool, which involves Harry trying to catch a serial killer who is murdering some of Hollywood’s D-list celebs. The plot is goofy, the script is bad, and the action sequences are half-assed. Eastwood seems like he’s kinda phoning it in throughout most of it. On the upside, Liam Neeson plays a scuzzy music video director with a ponytail (quite the far cry from his goon-squashing CIA operative in Taken). You also get to see Harry shoot someone with a harpoon gun, so that’s not nothing.
