Review of In the Line of Fire (1993) by Chris G — 06 Jul 2008
The last time Clint Eastwood was directed by another was this 1993 thriller that came out on the heels of Eastwood's masterpiece Unforgiven. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, an over the hill Secret Service agent that gets caught up in an assassination plot designed by the wonderfully psychotic John Malkovich. The little plot device thrown into this is that Horrigan was on JFK's detail in Dallas the day he was assassinated.
Wolfgang Petersen directs this thriller that takes us into the Secret Service for the first time. Eastwood plays Horrigan like Dirty Harry- even more so than the actual Dirty harry film The Dead Pool. But the true standout is Malkovich who plays the psychotic Mitch Leary with such calmness and delight you almost feel sad when he leaves the screen.
This review of In the Line of Fire (1993) was written by Chris G on 06 Jul 2008.
In the Line of Fire has generally received very positive reviews.
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