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The Rookie [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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Clint Eastwood (Actor, Director), Charlie Sheen (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
4.1 out of 5 stars 50 customer reviews

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  • Actors: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt
  • Directors: Clint Eastwood
  • Producers: David Valdes, Howard Kazanjian, Steven Siebert
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Greek
  • Dubbed: Spanish, French
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jun. 2010
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0036BT8E4
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 83,952 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Buddy movie featuring Charlie Sheen as a buttoned-down young policeman who pairs up with Clint Eastwood's hard-bitten, hard-drinking maverick. The duo work in the auto-theft division and are on the trail of a big stolen car ring. Initially despising his older colleague's methods, the 'rookie' realises it's time to get tough when his partner is kidnapped. Clint Eastwood directs.

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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Rookie
By Rich Milligan on 3 July 2005
Format: DVD
Made with all the subtlety of a house brick this film is a full face on assault on the viewer from the very beginnings of the speeding chase between the cops and the hijacked car-transporter to the final shot out at the airport terminal.
The film uses all the most well worn tricks of the "buddy-buddy / old cop - rookie cop / poor down on his luck - rich privileged / rule breaking - rule following" action movies ever made and is at least honest enough not to try to pretend to be anything else.
Clint Eastwood is an interesting choice in such a film and his performance is clearly better than the film actually demands. The Schwarzenegger like one-liners are made more amusing when coming from his lips although the crafting of a new catch phrase "You gotta light?" doesn't quite work. Charlie Sheen is mean, moody and handsome and isn't really required to be anything else, the dad-son "You were never there for me!" scenes are an embarrassment to be perfectly frank and could well have been omitted from the film.
Even more painful though is the extraordinary Germanic accent employed by chief baddie Raul Julia, taking every opportunity to put a "z" in every word he snarls and grimaces from scene to scene, "Venn I goez, I goez wiz ze bang!" mind you topping even this is Sonia Braga as Julia's girlfriend Liesl. Never before have I seen such an unattractive supposedly sexy character and whose actual purpose in the film was puzzling to say the least. But going even one stage higher in the bad acting stakes is Pepe Serna as Eastwood's boss, hats off to this guy for managing to do every possible human emotion, from anger to fear to depression to joy without once changing his facial expression!
I'm probably being unfair here, as I say it is a good old fashioned cops and robbers action film and at least with Eastwood on board it is raised to a slightly higher level than most, but don't expect anything more than this.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Rookie rocks.
By DAN H. on 20 April 2014
Format: Blu-ray
I have never seen a positive review of this film from a film critic or magazine article since it's release. Even from Clint Eastwoods much respected personal biographer, Richard Schickle. Which I have always found to be a mystery to me because The Rookie is rather good. I first saw it at the cinema on it's release and have contiued to enjoy the film ever sinse. I do understand why its not Eastwoods best film, but it's not surpossed to be or pretend to be. It does however present itself as a very good honest A to B action film and remains one of favourite action, and Eastwood pictures. The story is simple about a vetren cop and his new partner, Charlie Sheen going on the rampage in LA for car thieves while in the pursuit of revenge for the murder of Eastwoods partner early on film by the leader of the criminal gang. It has Eastwwod on good form with some good one liners and he is a joy to watch as he shows he is not over the hill and does what he does best in a cop role. Sheen puts on a good show and is convincing as a wet behind the ears rookie but soon breaks free from this when he goes berserk, as taught by his mentor Eastwood. The action scenes are great with some ferocious car chases, and none of the dodgy CGI you get theses days. The action scenes include a out of control car chase down the free way where a car transporter sheds it's load of luxury cars off the trailer into the traffic. The other stand out moment is when Eastwwod and Sheen was escape a building ready to explode by driving out of the top floor window while the building blows up behind them. I have seen reviews of this film describing it as an out of date buddy cop film. It's is not at all and is far better that Lethal Weapon 3 and 4 which strayed from there original format.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsEastwood falls asleep at the wheel
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 17 Nov. 2010
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
The Rookie comes from the darkest point in Clint Eastwood's career, in more ways than one. Eastwood's policy of one-for-him and one-for-the-studio had usually balanced his more ambitious personal films with solid crowdpleasing hits, which The Rookie was clearly intended to be, but following on from the critically acclaimed but financially disastrous Bird and White Hunter, Black Heart, it turned out to be every bit as critically derided and financially disastrous as Pink Cadillac, leading many to assume that the star was past his sell-by date until Unforgiven rescued both his credibility and his box-office viability.

Rumoured to have began life as a Dirty Harry sequel with Eastwood passing on the reins to a younger star - here Charlie Sheen's troubled rich kid - to keep the franchise alive, it's certainly one of his worst films even on a dumb Saturday night action level, lazily written and shot in almost total darkness at times, as was Eastwood's wont in those days. Blu-ray certainly helps improve the picture quality on TV but the night scenes still require more work than they should to decipher at times. The script is pretty much beyond redemption, though, taking mere seconds to descend into unintentionally laughable and only occasionally aspiring to the heights of vaguely competent.

There's nothing wrong with clichés in an action movie if you can pull them off with some wit or panache or at least have decent action setpieces to punctuate them, but this is just lazy and very shoddily made, with Eastwood literally sitting out much of the second half of the film while Sheen unconvincingly goes on a crimebusting rampage because "It's time for me to stop being afraid and other people to start!Read more ›
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