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In the Line of Fire (1993)
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This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and the brilliant, psychopathic assassin (John Malkovich) who's itching to get the President in his cross hairs. The back-story--Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedy's assassination (Eastwood is computer-generated into archival footage)--is more than a little hokey, but the plotting itself is smartly, even ingeniously, constructed. Petersen manages a viselike grip on the tension and Eastwood even gets to deliver an ever-more-timely lecture on the diminished nature...
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In the Line of Fire Movie Review by Jarrod  (9/15/2007) |
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'In the Line of Fire' is a superb thriller, with a superb villain, played by John Malkovich in one of his best performances. He is Mitch, a master of disguise, a former assassin, now set on killing the president, even at the cost of his own life. He toys with Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Eastwood), who is still...
(complete In the Line of Fire review by Jarrod)
| In the Line of Fire Movie Review by B Movie Ben (5/21/2007) |
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Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Air Force One) gives us an exciting film where the accolades go to the supporting actor, John Malkovich. His criminal attempting to assassinate the President was first-rate and credible.
That is not to diminish the efforts of Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo, or even Fred Dalton Thompson, who...
(complete In the Line of Fire review by B Movie Ben)
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