The Dead Pool

1988

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 48764 48.8K

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Plot summary

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late...


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Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Liam Neeson as Peter Swan
Jim Carrey as Johnny Squares
Slash as Musician at Funeral
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Tweekums 6 / 10

Good bye Dirty Harry

This is the fifth and final film to feature San Francisco detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan, it is also the lightest of the five featuring more humour and a bit less violence.

The film opens with two plot strands; after sending a local mob boss to prison Harry is targeted by his henchmen in revenge, at the same time we see somebody writing a list of local celebrities which includes the Harry who is in the spotlight after the trial. Soon after a rock singer, played by Jim Carrey in an early role, dies and Harry and his new partner are called in to investigate. At first it looks like a routine overdose until his name is found on the "dead pool list" discovered on somebody killed in a robbery.

This leads Harry to the low budget horror film director Peter Swan on whose list the dead singer's name was along with Harry who isn't too amused. After a run in with the media Harry finds himself going to dinner with a female reporter who ends up part of the news rather than just recording it.

I thought this film was a step up from Sudden Impact, the previous film in the series, largely because the film was back where it belongs in San Francisco but also he was once again with a partner and the story was more fun. While Clint Eastwood was getting a bit old for the role he still played it well, the other actors were pretty good too. The most memorable scene in the film has to be a rather unusual take on the classic car chase, this one is different as Harry is chased by a remote controlled toy car which contains a bomb.

While this isn't one of Clint Eastwood's best films I'd certainly recommend it to fans of the early Dirty Harry films and for people for like cop films in general.

Reviewed by poolandrews 6 / 10

"Your out of bullets & you know what that means... your sh*t out of luck." Solid 80's tough cop thriller.

The Dead Pool is set in San Francisco where crime-boss Lou Janero (Anthony Charnota) has put a hit out on Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), while dodging attempts on his life & with his new partner Inspector Quan (Evan C. Kim) Harry has to investigate the death of rock star Johnny Squares (Jim Carrey) when he is discovered dead in his trailer on the set of a horror film. With help from a local new reporter Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson) Harry discovers the existence of a dead pool, a list of celebrities which horror film director Peter Swan (Liam Neeson) & some of his friends bet on who will die before a certain date. It quickly transpires that someone is systematically going through Peter's list & killing the celebrities off one-by-one & Harry learns that his name is on the list which makes him a potential victim...

Directed by Buddy Van Horn this was the fifth & to date final Dirty Harry film, I haven't seen all of them as yet but I thought The Dead Pool was a pretty good if unspectacular 80's tough cop thriller. The script by Steve Sharon is alright, it has a fairly good story that tries something different for the genre although one has to say I felt it had more potential than it ultimately delivered. The idea of a dead pool lottery style bet about celebrities dying could have made for a great film but here the idea is underdeveloped, it's never revealed what the point of the dead pool is in the first place. I mean it's seemingly nothing more than a silly bet between a horror director & a few of his friends, it's never revealed what the actual prize was meant to be or just how seriously those involved took it & it gets forgotten as the number of murder victims grow. What I'm trying to say is that I never felt there was sufficient reason behind the killings & the climax which reveals it was the work of a lone psychotic was somewhat underwhelming. The Dead Pool also tries to say something relevant about media coverage of crimes & cops, this is quite well handled & the point is made effectively enough. The makers could have had a lot of fun with the dead pool & turned this into a gripping thriller, as it is it's a decent action thriller that passes the time but ultimately doesn't live long in the memory once it's over.

Director Van Horn does alright, it moves along at a decent pace, there's some good action scenes & shoot-outs along with an imaginative car chase in which Dirty Harry is chased across San Francisco by a remote controlled car packed with explosives! Harry himself is still a great character & he has everything it took to be an action hero back in the 80's, the utter & total contempt for authority, the droll one-liners & the need to use excessive & deadly force at all times which he also had during the 70's of course. He has it all, he's maybe a bit old but he still holds his own as he blows bad guy's away left, right & center. There's some violence & a bit of blood which helps things along nicely.

Technically the film is good, it has that solid Hollywood big budget feel to it & it's well made especially the car chase. Shot on location in San Francisco despite, according to the IMDb, the cities residents (people with obviously too much time on their hands) protesting that 'Dirty' Harry Callahan would be a bad character to represent the city! The acting is OK, there are early roles for Liam Neeson & Jim Carrey while the members of Guns N'Roses appear as extras at the funeral of Johnny Squares.

The Dead Pool is a solid action thriller, it's not the best one ever made but it's far from the worst. Dirty Harry fans should like it & general action fans should too, worth a watch if nothing else. This was a sequel to Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976) & Sudden Impact (1983).

Reviewed by blanche-2 7 / 10

Eastwood's last "Dirty Harry"

In the final Dirty Harry movie, Inspector Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is annoyed by his new-found fame, caused by his court testimony against an important mob figure. His next case is a real winner: an obnoxious British director (Liam Neeson) has a "dead pool" on the set of his new horror flick. Each crew member picks ten celebrities they believe will die, and the one with the most dead celebs on their list at the end of the game is the big winner.

Just one problem with this - the people on the director's list start dying at an alarming rate and mysteriously, including his leading man. And guess whose name is on the list as well - yeah, Harry's.

If this isn't enough, a TV reporter (Patricia Clarkson) wants to do a big story on him.

Directed by Buddy van Horn, "The Dead Pool" is a spoof of a sort, killing a movie critic as part of the story (ouch), and the story actually concerns movie-making. It also has a car chase that's a take-off on "Bullitt." The stereotypical characters found in this type of film are played by some excellent actors, and there's plenty of sexual innuendo to go around.

Someone mentioned that Eastwood seems a little old here for Dirty Harry. He seems old for just about every role he plays, frankly, but he keeps playing them. It's always amazing how men are able to do this with no problem, but give the man his due. He's a great presence, and in 1988, his best work as both a director and an actor was yet to come! Very entertaining and well-acted. If you can get the joke, you'll enjoy it all the more.

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