Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Heidi Brühl
DVD Release Date: December 15, 1998
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October 13, 2008Clint Eastwood plays James Bond wannabe Jonathan Hemlock in this espionage thriller. Eastwood should never play a spy or a Russian stealing a badly rendered jet. There, I've said it. This film is almost a parody of James Bond films, going so over the top with its characters. The ...( read more)
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January 1, 2007An interesting movie... a bit underrated - Eastwood goes secret agent an mountain climbing. An interesting story - a bit slow but it all comes together at the end when you find out the truth. This movie is special due to its script - a sharp, witty script with some good liners a...( read more)
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September 15, 2006Underrated action nonsense. It doesn't make a lick of sense but it's entertaining.
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December 26, 2008An entertaining lesser known Eastwood movie. Clint plays a retired assassin who's blackmailed into doing one last job. The acting of course is excellent from Eastwood, who's playing a slightly different role than we're used to. I also loved the really sharp dialogue (that's shock...( read more)
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July 13, 2009One of the movies I watched approximately 1,000 times as a child!
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June 3, 2009Based on the raunchy pulp novel by Rodney William Whitaker, written under the pseudonym Trevanian. Clint Eastwood's most interesting film. A top notch intelligence community action thriller.
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July 28, 2008Actually one of my favorite Eastwood films. Read the book several times after I saw the movie. Clint does a good job. A major plus of this film is the wildly different locales. Switzerland, Arizona, Germany...The story is not your typical assassin motif. It has well thought out plot intrigue and very good characters for the story.
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