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The Dead Pool (1988)

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Calificación de los usuarios: 5.9/10 (7,783 votes)
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Director:
Buddy Van Horn
Writers (WGA):
Harry Julian Fink (characters) and
Rita M. Fink (characters) ...
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Release Date:
13 julio 1988 (USA) más view trailer
Genre:
Action | Thriller | Crime | Drama más
Frase comercial:
Dirty Harry Just Learned A New Game
Plot:
Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target. full summary | add synopsis
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También conocida como:
Dirty Harry in The Dead Pool (USA) (poster title)
Lista negra, La (Spain) [es]
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Duración:
91 min
País:
USA
Idioma:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 más
Sonido:
Dolby
Clasificación:
Iceland:16 | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2008) | France:Unrated | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) | USA:R (certificate #29247) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1988) | Spain:18 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:18
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Trivialidades:
Permission was given to film in San Francisco, despite protests from citizens who thought Harry Callahan was not a good representative for the city. más
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: During the chase with the remote controlled car, after Callahan's car makes it's second jump over a steep hill, you can briefly see a portable film camera on a mount in the back seat of the car. más
Quotes:
Insp. Al Quan: It's like I was telling you, Harry. Celebrities, they always die in...
Harry Callahan: ...in threes.
Insp. Al Quan: At least the guy went out with...
Harry Callahan: ...a bang. Yeah, I know.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Eastwood... A Star (1992) (TV) más
Soundtrack:
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE más

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
Pool Of Dead Critics, 1 May 2006
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Author: jldmp1 (jldmp1@aol.com) de United States

This was altogether too simple for the critics back in '88 -- the whole idea was to point the barrel of the joke right back at the criticism.

Whereas the previous Dirty Harry features sat on a platform of utter contempt for bureaucrats and political correctness, here it's expanded to contempt for journalists, and especially the subspecies of 'media critics'. As if they couldn't make it clearer, a 'movie critic' is murdered, and treated as an occurrence of 'death of celebrities by threes'.

Yes, this is explicitly about movie making; the previous four movies suffered from poor supporting casts that only got in the way of the narrative. Here Van Horn deliberately employs good actors to play bad genre roles and thus turns the series on its head.

Along the way, we get a nice comment on "Bullitt", this time deflating the over touted car chase with a gag: an explosives laden model '63 Z06 (instead of a fastback Mustang, to drive home the point).

By this time, the .44 Magnum is treated as a character, with a 'voice' that rolls off the cityscape like thunder...the bad guys run at the mere sight of it. To put the icing on the 'man with the biggest gun' motif, Clint dispatches the villain with an earlier one liner ("you're S.O.L.") and a movie prop harpoon. The elaborate conflation of sexual double entendre, humor and cowboy justice went soaring over many heads. Arnold wishes he was half this funny in "Last Action Hero".

Ah, we miss Harry...but his retirement to Carmel was both serendipitous and necessary. By the end of this, he's killed off every cartoon bad guy left in the movie universe, paving the way for both the dimensional villains of "Die Hard" and its ilk, AND the hosannas bestowed on "Unforgiven".

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