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Clint Eastwood is a down-and-out cop who is sent on a routine mission to pick up a witness and deliver her to the Phoenix courthouse. Sounds easy until he realises he's been set up by the man who gave him this simple assignment. The interplay between Eastwood and the witness, a clever prostitute played by the actor's former girlfriend, Sondra Locke, is tough and playful. They obviously had strong chemistry. The story is highly implausible at times, but the action sequences are satisfying. Eastwood directs The Gauntlet very much in the style of his Academy Award-winning Western Unforgiven. Although the body count is surprisingly low for an Eastwood action film, a house, several cars and a large bus get shot through with more holes than a big wheel of Swiss cheese. For Eastwood fans, this is the laconic hero at his prime. --Richard Natale
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Exactly. Reasonable suspicion. I can go anywhere I please if I have reasonable suspicion
18 July 2009
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I was interested to see the reviews were evenly spread down the stars.
I would go for four stars as an mediocre Clint film is still a good watch.
Do Clint's characters never ever understand that dealing with the baddies is the easiest part of his job as a hard bitten cop. His biggest problems come from his own colleagues and the police department particularity the commissioner or mayor.
He has his set of values which he upholds but they are always invariably corrupt to the core either giving into political demands or the mob in this case.
You have to suspend believe that if the whole police department and the mob were after you and are prepared to expend thousand of rounds that somehow all you will gets is a bullet in the leg.
Also you know if Sondra Locke is in the film you will get a squint at her naked chest which goes down well.Some baddies will try to rape her but Clint metes out appropriate justice. No cautions or community service for them Also you have to believe that hard bitten hookers would fall for down trodden cops who initially they hate.
You know if a sharp shooter turns up in a helicopter against one man on a motorbike that the helicopter comes off worse ( James Bond also used to sort out helicopters )
The final scene is fairly unbelievable but you know Clint has a job to do and he will do it. He delivers his witness to the court house in one piece confronts the baddies and sorts them out.
What did they expect ?
Not his best film but definitely worth a few looks.The Times gave it film choice but said it was dumber than usual. They were wrong.
They were right when they said it made the A team look true to life.
I would go for four stars as an mediocre Clint film is still a good watch.
Do Clint's characters never ever understand that dealing with the baddies is the easiest part of his job as a hard bitten cop. His biggest problems come from his own colleagues and the police department particularity the commissioner or mayor.
He has his set of values which he upholds but they are always invariably corrupt to the core either giving into political demands or the mob in this case.
You have to suspend believe that if the whole police department and the mob were after you and are prepared to expend thousand of rounds that somehow all you will gets is a bullet in the leg.
Also you know if Sondra Locke is in the film you will get a squint at her naked chest which goes down well.Some baddies will try to rape her but Clint metes out appropriate justice. No cautions or community service for them Also you have to believe that hard bitten hookers would fall for down trodden cops who initially they hate.
You know if a sharp shooter turns up in a helicopter against one man on a motorbike that the helicopter comes off worse ( James Bond also used to sort out helicopters )
The final scene is fairly unbelievable but you know Clint has a job to do and he will do it. He delivers his witness to the court house in one piece confronts the baddies and sorts them out.
What did they expect ?
Not his best film but definitely worth a few looks.The Times gave it film choice but said it was dumber than usual. They were wrong.
They were right when they said it made the A team look true to life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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In the 1970s films became more violent. No doubt about it. And The Gauntlet is unquestionably a violent film. Buildings are reduced to rubble, vehicles are shot to pieces, people are pumped full of lead, and plenty of blood is spilled.... all in the name of entertainment! This noisy Clint Eastwood vehicle is good fun, with lots of exciting sequences, though thoroughly unbelievable pretty much from the start.
Honest, hard-working Phoenix cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood) is sent by Comissioner Blakelock (William Prince) to bring in a prostitute who may be able to provide key testimony in a high profile trial. But from the moment Shockley meets Gus Malley (Sondra Locke), he suddenly finds himself in the firing line.... and it's not the usual bad guys who are after him, but the cops. Seems Malley's testimony could implicate a major police figure in sleaze and scandal, and the man in question is none other than Shockley's boss Comissioner Blakelock. Shockley attempts to get his witness back to Phoenix, despite the fact that every cop on the force has been ordered by Blakelock to gun the pair of them down.
The climactic sequence, in which Eastwood and Locke head for Phoenix City Hall in an armour-plated bus while sharp-shooters try to blast the living hell out of the vehicle, is truly astounding. As a destructive set piece not many sequences can rival it even to this day. The film contains many similarly noisy, destructive, memorable scenes. Admittedly, there are times when believability is markedly lacking (e.g the bit where Clint and Sondra are pursued by a helicopter while aboard a motorbike - and the sniper aboard the helicopter repeatedly fails to gun them down). However, on the whole The Gauntlet is good fun. Switch your brain down a gear or two and enjoy....
Honest, hard-working Phoenix cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood) is sent by Comissioner Blakelock (William Prince) to bring in a prostitute who may be able to provide key testimony in a high profile trial. But from the moment Shockley meets Gus Malley (Sondra Locke), he suddenly finds himself in the firing line.... and it's not the usual bad guys who are after him, but the cops. Seems Malley's testimony could implicate a major police figure in sleaze and scandal, and the man in question is none other than Shockley's boss Comissioner Blakelock. Shockley attempts to get his witness back to Phoenix, despite the fact that every cop on the force has been ordered by Blakelock to gun the pair of them down.
The climactic sequence, in which Eastwood and Locke head for Phoenix City Hall in an armour-plated bus while sharp-shooters try to blast the living hell out of the vehicle, is truly astounding. As a destructive set piece not many sequences can rival it even to this day. The film contains many similarly noisy, destructive, memorable scenes. Admittedly, there are times when believability is markedly lacking (e.g the bit where Clint and Sondra are pursued by a helicopter while aboard a motorbike - and the sniper aboard the helicopter repeatedly fails to gun them down). However, on the whole The Gauntlet is good fun. Switch your brain down a gear or two and enjoy....
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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A modern fable from Eastwood wherein Prince Charming is a washed-up alcoholic cop with a bad case of burn-out, the Princess in peril is a foul-mouthed, smartass skinny white hooker and the dragons and villains in need of slaying are bikers, crooked cops and sky-diving helicopters.
Always an artist with a rare eye for taking a risk, Eastwood experiments with a movie that takes the cop action/drama genre and cross breeds it with an urban fairy tale of fantastical proportions. Intended as a piece of slick entertainment rather than a gritty, realistic message movie to be taken seriously, The Gauntlet just about works on the level it is pitched at.
Obviously, no one could ralistically survive the sustained hail of bullets that Eastwood and Locke do throughout it's running time and no law enforcement agency in the civilised worls would be allowed to dispense such firestorms at just two people. If you accept that this film is essentially a shadowy cop fantasy rather than a neo-realistic expose of, say, police corruption, then you may get a fair deal of enjoyment out of it. If you can't, then you probably won't.
Not the most satisfactory of Clint's efforts, it has to be said, yet definitely worth a look for the fans and those willing to suspend disbelief.
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Showing its age but still a classic...
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audio , subtitles
audio : dolby TrueHD English 5.1, DOLBY DIGITAL English 5.1, Français 1.0, Espanol 1.0, German 1.0, japanese 1.0
subtitles : English, Français, Espanol, German, japanese
subtitles : English, Français, Espanol, German, japanese
Published 15 months ago by Yvan Z
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Published on 6 May 2007 by Trevor Willsmer
The Gauntlet: Clint, what were you thinking?
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