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Wes Block (Eastwood) is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer choos...( read more 
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MCT:September 16, 2008I think this is a great, creepy film. A nice change of role for Clint, which worked out well in my opinion.
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MCT:May 29, 2008He is a cop who goes after men who happen to share his . . . likes! His real life daughter is in it with him. VERY good movie. A Cop on the Edge? You bet!
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MCT:February 24, 2008Some Spoilers Here *********************************************************
This is one of my favorite Eastwood films that has kinda slipped under the radar and been overshadowed by his more well known films like Dirty Harry and A Fistful Of Dollars. In this film Clint Eastwood plays New Orleans police detective Wes Block who's attraction for what's weird and strange in women that he occasionally picks up in the city's red light district, to have a romp in the hay with. This leads to him suffering from a very bad case of guilt when the very same women that he has sex, as well as S&M sessions, with end up brutally murdered.
Divorced and living with his two young daughters Amanda & Penny, Alison Eastwood & Jenny Beck, Wes seems to have developed this behavior after his wife left him and has a hard time trying to keep it from both his children and fellow policemen that he works with.Being put on the handcuff and red lace serial murder case Wes slowly begins to notice that the killer somehow knows, or is observing, him. As almost all of the women that he has relations with, streetwalkers and call girls, end up being strangled to death with the same type of lace. It's as if the killer is trying to leave a massage to the New Orleans Police in general and Det. Wes Block in particular.
Your, as well as Det. Block are kept guessing to who and what this maniac is really all about and we keep getting clues all throughout the movie about him and what Wes had to do with his murders. It's not until almost at the end of the movie "Tightrope" Wes learns that he had an encounter with him years ago that put him behind bars for eleven years. Now out of jail he's obsessed to reap havoc on not just Wes but his family as well as Wes' new girlfriend the supervisor of a local rape prevention center in the city.
Always a step ahead of the police and Det. Block the killer attempts to kidnap Wes' daughters and gets as far as murdering their nanny Mrs. Holstein, Margie O'Dair, and almost strangles Wes whom he takes by surprise. Wes is saved by one of his, and Amanda and Penny's, four dogs who rips a piece of flesh out of the killers leg. Wes then seems to come apart when he feels that he let both himself and his family down almost tearing his entire bedroom apart in a wild fit of anger.
Knowing that the killer will strike at Wes girlfriend Beryl next since, with the exception of his daughters, she's the closest person to him the police and Det. Block set a trap for him. This is a challenge that the killer eagerly accepts murdering three policemen who were on petrol outside of Bryal home. It's Wes who comes to the rescue, after Beryl escaped from his grasp by stabbing him, and has it out with the deranged madman at the railroad yard.
Unusual Eastwood action/thriller with him being a man with his share of fears and hang-ups that makes him far more interesting and human than most of the roles he has played in his film career -
MCT:January 8, 2008
Wes Block (Eastwood) is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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MCT:December 13, 2007
Well the title of the movie makes sense. Clint walks a tightrope between befriending the street characters in this movie and trying to solve their murders. You are never quite sure if Clint had anything to do with them. On the other hand, he is raising two beautiful kids. This is one of those movies I have to see a second time to figure everything out.
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MCT:October 23, 2007
A real gem of a noir that is certainly overlooked & under appreciated by Eastwood fans since most can't relate to the sleaze but Clint is truly a vulnerable anti-hero hero. He's trying to gain control of situations he is losing (or has already lost) control of from the stray dogs he takes in, the role of a single cop father from a wife that has left him to the hookers he handcuffs to their bed posts to satisfy his primal needs. Only then does he realize he's paving the way for the tennis shoed/ribbon strangler who walks in his shadow. Smart & trashy.
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MCT:July 4, 2007
I suppose that people could be discerned by the Dirty Harry connection to Clint Eastwood, but this is no DH film.
An amazing story about the seedy underbelly of vice work, that puts pay to any of the misconceptions. Here Clint plays a very dark character, a sort of anti-hero on the trail of someone killing prostitutes and the like that he's been involved with.
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MCT:May 31, 2007Not a classic film but not that bad either and it does take a few risks with how it portrays Eastwood's character, Wes Block. If I had my film studies hat on, I'd talk about how it's a further deconstruction of the Dirty Harry iconic archetype, but I haven't because it's making my head itch. I will say this though, I don't know if it's tied to the thematic 'darkness' of the story or whether it was just a bad print that I saw but it seemed to be really badly lit for most of the film.
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MCT:May 30, 2007
This is a very tense thriller where Clint Eastwood doesn't play the usual hero... Full of suspense and twists.
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MCT:February 11, 2007
Eastwood's character finds out that, regarding sexual preferences, he has a lot in common with the killer he's trying to catch. Psychological, raw and thrilling.
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MCT:December 25, 2006Seedy psycho-thriller in the same vein as Sudden Impact, and similarly unpleasant. An attempt is made to flesh out the Dirty Harry-esque character, but it's all too rooted in tasteless voyeurism.
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MCT:November 2, 2006
Not as good as the early Dirty Harry cop movies but it does have its moments and some great shots of New Orleans.
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MCT:October 29, 2006
Great thriller of Eastwood to strike a killer who put the suspect onto him. Clint's daughter, Alison appeared in this debut film.
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