The Enforcer Reviews

Even though I have watched many times the Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood when I was a kid with my dad, I discovered his Dirty Harry flicks much later on in my life. Eventually, even though I still prefer his Westerns, I still enjoyed his famous cop features as well. The interesting thing with this franchise is that the sequels were actually pretty decent and this one was not an exception, even though it was still the weakest installment though. The point is that all these movies were pretty much resting on Clint Eastwood’s shoulders and the plots provided in these flicks were usually not really amazing, at least, that’s my opinion. Well, this time, the story was the weakest they would provide with the always bad-ass Dirty Harry. In fact, Clint Eastwood was supposed to direct this one but after getting rid of Philip Kaufman, he had to take over the directing duties on ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ and he was still too busy working on the post-production and couldn’t direct this movie at the same time. One of the asset of this 2nd sequel was Tyne Daly as she gave a solid performance and she would be Harry’s only female partner. To conclude, even though this flick was  slightly disappointing, I thought it was still entertaining (it was also a major success when it was released) and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

Harry's back! In his third, disappointing, adventure!

The Enforcer is definitely not as good as the original Dirty Harry (can't compare it to the second one, haven't seen it yet). The first movie had a simple premise. Simple and yet, genius. One bad guy, One cop. But in this movie, people die and the audience is left wondering, why. Characters you've never seen before are killed and you're wondering if they're important. Harry's back on the police force in this movie, which angers me. The ending to Dirty Harry where he throws away his badge was perfect. Also we barely get to see any action from Harry. There's only about 2 scenes where he's fighting someone. Overall, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I expected more from Clint. 5.7

Typical Dirty Harry fare, but now with a female partner.
However, despite being forced to side up with a Women's Lib quota filler,
Clint Eastwood still manages to carry a 70's machismo chip on his shoulder, talk thru incessantly gritted teeth, piss off his superiors & weld big handguns like they were just a natural extension of what makes Harry so dirty to begin with.