- Classification: 18
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 14 Aug 2000
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CK3L
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,338 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sudden Impact tends to be treated as Eastwood's artistic failure at a point in his career when he had established a good reputation as a director. The reason is actually not the film itself but the attitude it takes towards vigilantism which it seems to support. In some places it actually owes more to Death Wish than the original Dirty Harry film. One might argue if that is so- at the end of the day it's a film about guilt, justice and retribution. For me, at the end of the day it's more empathy than sympathy. However, in view of all these arguments it is easily overlooked that sudden impact is an awfully well made film. Forget the "Go ahead punk, make my day scene", that's iconic but not original. But look at the views of San Fransisco taken from the air, zooming in on the city. The first 15 or 20 minutes are quite spectacular. Or have a look at the brilliantly made scene where Sondra Locke's character visits her mentally ill sister in hospital. Eastwood makes great use of the juxtaposition of faces. So all in all Sudden Impact is a very visual film that really shows how mature Eastwood is as a director. And if I remember correctly it was actually the first time Eastwood put that on screen albeit in an action film of debatable ideology. Also, I think this is the first well paced film Eastwood directed. Although Eastwood has enormous talent as a director, dramaturgy has always been his weak point (see Play Misty for me, Breezy etc.) Thepace of the narrative leads to the visual elements being well integrated into the film and not distracting from the story. The only thing that is really annoying is the farting dog.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I missed this one until the other day. I like a good vigilante film as you feel that at least all the baddies have got it coming to them.
Harry Callahan is as unreconstructed as ever. He doesn't have time for counselling or dishing out cautions or ASBOs. He hunts down the baddies and deals with them he meets ladies on the way who have been hard done by and for some reason they insist on sleeping with him It cant be for his feminine side or his chat up lines because he hasn't got any.
The characters are drawn well enough that you actually care what happens to the,m Sondra Locke and her sister were raped by the baddies and she sets out to kill them all. Dirty harry ends up helping her out
You get the impression that 1980s San Francisco was a very dangerous place and that the only one who could clean it up was Dirty harry. He was totally misunderstood by all his superiors and were forever trying to suspend him
He only has to go and get his usual cup of coffee than trouble kicks off. He ends up killing almost all of the baddies and handing the last terrified one over tho e his colleagues. He asks various baddies to make his day but sometimes they decline.
When the local gang leader dies he send his boys out with machine guns to get Harry, many hundreds of rounds later they fail to even injure him. Three shots from Harry narrows the odds and the last baddy is lucky enough to get away with his life.
Harry was obviously a forerunner of modern policing as he believes in zero tolerance.
A great film and worth ten out of ten.
Harry Callahan is as unreconstructed as ever. He doesn't have time for counselling or dishing out cautions or ASBOs. He hunts down the baddies and deals with them he meets ladies on the way who have been hard done by and for some reason they insist on sleeping with him It cant be for his feminine side or his chat up lines because he hasn't got any.
The characters are drawn well enough that you actually care what happens to the,m Sondra Locke and her sister were raped by the baddies and she sets out to kill them all. Dirty harry ends up helping her out
You get the impression that 1980s San Francisco was a very dangerous place and that the only one who could clean it up was Dirty harry. He was totally misunderstood by all his superiors and were forever trying to suspend him
He only has to go and get his usual cup of coffee than trouble kicks off. He ends up killing almost all of the baddies and handing the last terrified one over tho e his colleagues. He asks various baddies to make his day but sometimes they decline.
When the local gang leader dies he send his boys out with machine guns to get Harry, many hundreds of rounds later they fail to even injure him. Three shots from Harry narrows the odds and the last baddy is lucky enough to get away with his life.
Harry was obviously a forerunner of modern policing as he believes in zero tolerance.
A great film and worth ten out of ten.
Format:DVD
Sensitive to outcries of pruce brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. Clint Eastwood scores again in Harry's fourth film (which he also directs), tracing a traumatized rape victim (Sondra Locke) who coldly guns down her bygone attackers - and, as secrets come to light, starts striking an emphateic chord in the pursuing lawman.
Audio: English, German, Spanish
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, German, German for the Hearing Impaired, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Special Features: Commentary by Richard Schickel, a featurette "The Evolution of Clint Eastwood", trailers for Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool, disk playable in Region 5 as well as Region 2
Audio: English, German, Spanish
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, German, German for the Hearing Impaired, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Special Features: Commentary by Richard Schickel, a featurette "The Evolution of Clint Eastwood", trailers for Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool, disk playable in Region 5 as well as Region 2
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Sudden Impact Review
I have not actually seen this DVD as I bought it for a friend who was very pleased with it. However, I was very pleased with the service; it was delivered the next day.
Published 13 months ago by JB600
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Published 14 months ago by Mr. Alan M. Foster
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Published 24 months ago by Jeremy W. Newbould
BEST DIRTY HARRY FILM EVER!
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Published on 12 July 2008 by Sick-o
Some very good action, some very dodgy acting
This has better action than "The Enforcer" and has the classic "make my day" line. It's worth seeing for a couple of sequences, most of them right at the start. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2008 by CJ
poor show
released in 1983 and with a tired looking clint reprising his role as harry callaghan,sudden impact is just a bit too much in places,its just overdone,clint also handles the... Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2007 by sean paul mccann
Weaker
This isn't in the same league as the original Dirty Harry movie and I would advise caution before buying. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2006 by S J Buck
A let down
I purchased the box of all the Dirty Harry films a couple of months ago now, I enjoyed the first two, the third was ok, then when I got to this one I found it to be pretty bad. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2004 by P. Woods
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