Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. The Dead Pool is definitely better than it gets credit for and once again Clint Eastwood was just awesome (that ending was badass admit it), Patricia Clarkson did a pretty good job as the reporter and i really liked both Liam Neeson and even Jim Carrey in a role unlike anything he is usually known for. The Dirty Harry Franchise is action at it's best and also Clint Eastwood keeps proving again and again that in the end? Age is truly just a small, pathetic and forgettable zero number. (10/10) (A+)

(Flash Review)There are two big surprises in this movie. Jim Carry is in it and his character ends up as an OD'd corps! So the movie's title is based on a game that people play by betting on celebrity deaths to win money; hence the name Dead Pool. The game is afoot and Harry soon learns he is an unwilling participant. At least he can say he has earned some fame. Of course when he avoids being killed early on, he wrecks a police cruiser and the department is upset! Following the theme of the rest of the series yet a bit forced. With some determined attempts on his life by the dead pool betters, one of those leads into a the first car chase I've seen with a remote control car which actually was entertaining. How many celebrities will be axed before Harry can catch them or will they ax Harry first? Overall, it was a quality ending to the Dirty Harry series.

There is a grittiness missing from this last installment of the Dirty Harry series. It had been missing from most of the films but it is really gone here. Harry in this one looks bored, I'm not sure why he would be assigned to the death of a drug addicted celebrity. Why is a remote controlled car being used as a means of assassination? There seems to be a lot of bad guys running around here. Maybe it was my waning interest and the films failure to engage me but I didn't really understand what was happening nor did I care enough to watch it again or rewind to work it out. Jim Carrey's small part is hammy and out of place. Liam Neeson looks the part but also fails to impress. Dirty Harry using a harpoon gun looks more like an attempt at Rambo than a cop dealing with crime. Not to mention the bad guy he shoots with it is armed with a gun and had ample to time to shoot him first. It just lacks the impact of the first film.

17 years and four degenerating sequels later, I presume it's about time for Dirty Harry to think about retirement… Throughout the franchise, the legendary character Inspector Harry Callahan has transformed from an unorthodox and nihilistic copper into a bleak and almost laughable caricature, and since the release of the the almighty 1971 original, the big cinema screen got overflowed with similar protagonists, usually depicted by equally grumpy-looking actors (Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris…). By now, Harry's cynical interactions with journalists have become rather dull and routine, and what's also repetitive is the fact that villains fire off entire arsenals of machine gun bullets at him while he just nonchalantly shoots once with his Magnum and kills the opponent immediately. The concept of "The Dead Pool" is still engaging enough, but the film contains far too many dumb sequences, clichéd & predictable sub plots and dire politically correct supportive characters! The glorious days of "punk!" and "Go ahead, make my day…" are gone forever. Around the same time that a jailed mafia boss put a price on his head, Dirty Harry is investigating the strange death of a punk-rock star/actor. He – Johnny Squares – was just shooting a film with the notoriously sleazy and sicko horror director Peter Swan, and Harry – together with his new Asian American partner Quan – discovers that Swan organizes a macabre little game called "dead pool" where he predicts the death of celebrities. The people on this list also actually start dying, and Dirty Harry is on there too! Is Peter Swan really as psychopathic as his reputation suggests? Are the murders controlled from behind bars? Does Lt. Callahan even care? The idea of a celebrity dead pool is quite exciting and some of the supportive characters are fascinating. Jim Carrey briefly appears as the first murder victim Johnny Squares and uses his facial talents to do a funny playback imitation of Guns 'n Roses' classic song "Welcome to the Jungle". The sequence perhaps doesn't fit in a supposedly raw and gritty late '80s thriller, but it's definitely fun. Also Liam Neeson is delightfully loathsome as the scumbag director – complete with ponytail – and, as a horror fanatic, I would really love to watch some of the fictional films that he made. They have titles such as "Hell without the Devil", "Hotel Satan" and "Night of the Slasher"! Where can I buy those? The questionable highlight of "The Dead Pool" is undeniably the long and totally bonkers chase of Callahan & Quan versus a six inch remote controlled toy car with a bomb hidden in it. I honestly can't figure out whether this sequence is meant to be a parody or a genuine moment of suspense. The two actors try very hard to look scared and the stunt work is impressive for sure, but the scene is so damn goofy and implausible that even the good old principle of 'suspension of disbelief' fails! By starring in this otherwise pointless and nonsensical film, I strongly believe that Clint Eastwood was merely just doing a favor to his "Buddy"-director