The Enforcer
The Enforcer
R | 22 December 1976 (USA)
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Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

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J Besser

I loved it when I saw it in the theater when I was thirteen. It had action and a little bit of nudity. Everything anyone would want in a movie. However, now I think it stinks. Clint has made very few clunkers. His batting average is probably as good as the Duke himself, John Wayne. That said, "The Enforcer" is one a dud. It has a silly story and weak bad guys. It's like an R rated movies for kids.

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Leofwine_draca

Another solid entry in the DIRTY HARRY series and another hugely entertaining thriller of a film. The plot here is as simple as simple can be: Harry goes up against a religious cult bent on destruction, with lots of shoot-outs, action and typical '70s hard-knuckle violence along the way. Eastwood once again makes the film his own as the iconic, laconic cop who takes no prisoners and accepts no rubbish from anybody, and he is given some particularly good comic interplay in the sequences with his new, female partner, whom he initially hates before growing to respect. He also gets lots of great one-liners – the "seven point suppository" line being my favourite. Tyne Daly (CAGNEY & LACEY) is also surprisingly excellent as the rookie cop.The bad guys are typical hippy-style psychos, the chiefs of staff (including Bradford Dillman's hard-headed Captain McKay) are idiots and everyone else just stands around watching the carnage unfold. Scenes to watch out for are the hostage negotiation moment (Harry drives a car through the building) and the tense shoot-out at the end. This is edgy '70s fare, very violent and shocking in places, with lots of unexpected plot twists and cold, sudden death. A great movie and a must for crime fans.

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ivo-cobra8

The Enforcer (1976) the third entry of the Dirty Harry series is quite well good action movie. It is one of my personal favorite action movies. This one is my favorite action film with all Dirty Harry movies, It still good and an excellent movie. Clint Eastwood still plays terrific his character in the third ride in Dirty Harry series. This one is still the good one film of the Dirty Harry series. After a while they do get a little repetitive. I really didn't like how Harry was acting towards Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) I really didn't like that. Tyne Daly did a fine job acting as a cop in this movie. Five years later, she played in her own TV cop show Cagney & Lacey (1981), the show lasted for 7.years. The message is as clunky as a 44 magnum in a handbag. The film feels longer than the first two. The whole thing lacks the style of the original Dirty Harry.I like this film a lot there a are great moments and action in this movie. What I don't understand is the hate for this film. Why? I never understood why people say that The Enforcer is a fascist film. Why? Because Eastwood mows down a bunch of hippies? Newsflash, the Manson family was also a bunch of hippies. There were hippie terrorist groups bombing military bases in the 60s and early 70. For Christ sake, its like these idiots have no idea that the hippies were not all peace and love. I don't mind The Enforcer, but undeniably it is the weakest of the Dirty Harry films, however the whole theory of Harry being sexist is rather stupid, he was merely concerned about the lack of experience his partner has, it just so happens she is a woman and journalists and critics are just looking for anything to twist or complain about without thinking twice, it's just a bunch of crap. Tyne Daly did a great acting performance in this film and she did a great job as Kate Moore. I love her! I love that San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) continues to carry as his sidearm his ".44 Magnum", the Smith & Wesson Model 29 with an 6 1/2" barrel. He comments in the film to his partner Insp. Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) that he particularly favors this gun due to penetration power, since he claims he's seen a .38 ricochet off a car windshield. He uses Rocket Launcher, the last showdown gun fights took place in Alcatraz, 3 years later, Clint Eastwood played in a movie Escape from Alcatraz (1979) that took place in the same prison. In this movie there are used even more automatic guns and hand guns. I love the actor DeVeren Bookwalter who played Bobby Maxwell an Vietnam Vet turned out the leader of the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), who stole automatic weapons from warehouse, then killed Lt. Al "fatso" Bressler (Harry Guardino) from Dirty Harry. Than they kidnapped the mayor and they were extortion the city for ransom money. So now Inspector Harry Callahan and Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), have to spoil their plans and save the major.The Enforcer is a 1976 American action film and the third in the Dirty Harry film series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby Maxwell. The Enforcer is the third installment in the Dirty Harry film franchise. Clint Eastwood returns in the 1976 sequel, which finds Dirty Harry partnered with a rookie Inspector who happens to be a woman (Tyne Daly). The duo must stop an ultra-leftist terrorist organization that threatens to wreak havoc on the city. Of note is one of the earliest appearances in a film of the M72 LAW. They were all kind of weapons used in this flick, Clint Eastwood is using rocket launcher M72A1 LAW blowing up Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter) to pieces in the watch tower. The scene was fantastic! This movie is a 8, it doesn't deserve to be criticized tough it is weak film, but it is still good. I like this movie a lot, it is the last Dirty Harry movie made in the 70's. This movie 8 and deserves it, it I still a good action movie.

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Jamesfilmfan905

The enforcer once again stars Clint eastwood as inspector harry Callahan who's partner is killed in action and he is partnered with a capable but slightly timid inspector Moore played by Cagney and laceys Tyne Daly . Harry and kates assignment is to prevent a Terrorist group named the peoples revolutionary strike force who have abducted the mayor of san Francisco and unless there demands aren't met he will be killed . This movie to me is the worst of the Dirty harry pictures simply because of the quality of the villains that are just a group of locals banding together to wreck havoc in san Francisco and go on a massacre throughout the city killing anyone who gets in there way there just clichéd villains who you could find in any action picture who could do the exact thing and the main leader of the gang named bobby Maxwell looks like a right retard throughout sure he has the appearance of a right psycho but when it comes to projecting dialogue he is stiff and dull . Anyway the action scenes are average and the performances by Eastwood and Tyne are outstanding and are the only the things in the movie which are worth watching so I guess if you liked the other dirty harry pictures check it out but you really aren't missing much this is undoubtedly the worst film of the series . Rated x violence/brief full frontal nudity

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