Fresh
A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry And The Homicidal Maniac...Harry's The One With The Badge.
1971 · 1h 42m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Don Siegel
Overview
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
If there aren't mentalities like Dirty Harry's at loose in the land, then the movie is irrelevant. If there are, we should not blame the bearer of the bad news.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
What makes Dirty Harry worth watching no matter how dumb the story, is Siegel's superb sense of the city, not as a place of moods but as a theater for action.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
Rotten
Clint Eastwood, in the title role, is a superhero whose antics become almost satire. Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller.
Variety
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