A good movie

A while back, I had the luck that all the Dirty Harry movies were broadcast in one of my Dutch channels as I was really eager to check this franchise starring Good Old Clint Eastwood. To be honest, there was no good reasons why this last installment should have been any good (As a matter of fact, it was the least successful of the five Dirty Harry films at the box-office)  but I thought it was actually quite enjoyable. Indeed, it was released almost 20 years after the last installment and you can feel that they were actually pushing it a little as Eastwood was almost 60 years old at the time but it still worked out and I thought the whole thing was definitely entertaining. Above all, I thought it was a decent serial killer plot, nothing really ground-breaking but still quite enjoyable. Of course, Clint Eastwood was still hugely charismatic at the time and he has never been more bad-ass than when he was playing the iconic Harry Callahan, even for a 5th installment. Another pleasure with this flick was to have Liam Neeson in a small part and Jim Carrey in an even smaller character. It is rather funny to think that, 20 years later, Neeson has become somehow an action star but that wasn’t something you could predict after watching this flick. To conclude, even though it is nothing really amazing, I thought it was a decent sequel and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10