ChikPapa
Very disappointed :(
MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
slightlymad22
The Enforcer (1976)Plot In A Paragraph: Dirty Harry (Clint) must foil a terrorist organization with the hep of his new rookie female partner (Tyne Daly) With the commercial Success of Magnum Force, it was only a matter of time before we got a third Dirty Harry!! Despite showing a softer side, as he is seen to be grieving over partners deaths, Harry is still the bullheaded hard nosed detective we remember from Magnum Force and Dirty Harry. Tyne Daly does well in the first strong woman role in the franchise. Harry Guardino and John Mitchum return, Albert Popwell turns up playing a different character for a third time in the franchise. It's weird, for some reason I always thought Clint directed this one. James Fargo does a good job of directing duties, the action scenes are well done and it's one of Clint's tightest movies. This is a bit lighter than the other two movies, and runs considerably shorter too. Jerry Fielding replaces Lalo Shifrin in scoring the movie. Once again, as usual, Clint is clearly doing his own stunts, and I believe it's the first time a Clint character uses the F word!! The Enforcer went on to become Clint's biggest commercial hit at that point, grossing $46 million at the domestic box office to end 1976 the ninth highest grossing movie of the year.
trashgang
I have a bit of problems with this flick. To be honest, there isn't that much of typical Dirty Harry style to see, yes, I know, he do has a one-liner, this time it's "marvellous" but somehow this flick let me down.It isn't the performances that are letting me down but the script itself. This time Callahan has a new partner, a woman and naturally it's against his nature to make a deal with her but after a while they do work fine together and you know that it will have a bad ending but somehow it's a bit too much of working together then the typical macho shoot to kill stuff.What was nice to see are the freeway bridges that were build in San Fran but were destroyed in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake. I still can remember the collapse of a section of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway. On the other hand at the end they are on the Alcatraz Island and have a look how terrible it was back then even when it was just opened for public. Not bad as a flick on it's own but not good for a Dirty Harry franchise. Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
ivo-cobra8
The Enforcer (1976) the third entry of the Dirty Harry series is quite well good action movie. It is one of my personal favorite action movies. This one is my favorite action film with all Dirty Harry movies, It still good and an excellent movie. Clint Eastwood still plays terrific his character in the third ride in Dirty Harry series. This one is still the good one film of the Dirty Harry series. After a while they do get a little repetitive. I really didn't like how Harry was acting towards Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) I really didn't like that. Tyne Daly did a fine job acting as a cop in this movie. Five years later, she played in her own TV cop show Cagney & Lacey (1981), the show lasted for 7.years. The message is as clunky as a 44 magnum in a handbag. The film feels longer than the first two. The whole thing lacks the style of the original Dirty Harry.I like this film a lot there a are great moments and action in this movie. What I don't understand is the hate for this film. Why? I never understood why people say that The Enforcer is a fascist film. Why? Because Eastwood mows down a bunch of hippies? Newsflash, the Manson family was also a bunch of hippies. There were hippie terrorist groups bombing military bases in the 60s and early 70. For Christ sake, its like these idiots have no idea that the hippies were not all peace and love. I don't mind The Enforcer, but undeniably it is the weakest of the Dirty Harry films, however the whole theory of Harry being sexist is rather stupid, he was merely concerned about the lack of experience his partner has, it just so happens she is a woman and journalists and critics are just looking for anything to twist or complain about without thinking twice, it's just a bunch of crap. Tyne Daly did a great acting performance in this film and she did a great job as Kate Moore. I love her! I love that San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) continues to carry as his sidearm his ".44 Magnum", the Smith & Wesson Model 29 with an 6 1/2" barrel. He comments in the film to his partner Insp. Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) that he particularly favors this gun due to penetration power, since he claims he's seen a .38 ricochet off a car windshield. He uses Rocket Launcher, the last showdown gun fights took place in Alcatraz, 3 years later, Clint Eastwood played in a movie Escape from Alcatraz (1979) that took place in the same prison. In this movie there are used even more automatic guns and hand guns. I love the actor DeVeren Bookwalter who played Bobby Maxwell an Vietnam Vet turned out the leader of the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), who stole automatic weapons from warehouse, then killed Lt. Al "fatso" Bressler (Harry Guardino) from Dirty Harry. Than they kidnapped the mayor and they were extortion the city for ransom money. So now Inspector Harry Callahan and Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), have to spoil their plans and save the major.The Enforcer is a 1976 American action film and the third in the Dirty Harry film series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby Maxwell. The Enforcer is the third installment in the Dirty Harry film franchise. Clint Eastwood returns in the 1976 sequel, which finds Dirty Harry partnered with a rookie Inspector who happens to be a woman (Tyne Daly). The duo must stop an ultra-leftist terrorist organization that threatens to wreak havoc on the city. Of note is one of the earliest appearances in a film of the M72 LAW. They were all kind of weapons used in this flick, Clint Eastwood is using rocket launcher M72A1 LAW blowing up Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter) to pieces in the watch tower. The scene was fantastic! This movie is a 8, it doesn't deserve to be criticized tough it is weak film, but it is still good. I like this movie a lot, it is the last Dirty Harry movie made in the 70's. This movie 8 and deserves it, it I still a good action movie.
SnoopyStyle
It's the third Dirty Harry movie. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is as hard as ever. San Francisco is threatened by a terrorist group called, The People's Revolutionary Strike Force led by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). He lures 2 gas workers with a hot girl and kills them for their uniform. They killed Callahan's partner during a heist of military weapons. Callahan is forced to partner with Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) who has no street experience but lots of book smarts. She was promoted for political considerations for being female.It's a workable Dirty Harry movie. He's as inappropriate and violent as ever. Tyne Daly is pre-'Cagney & Lacey'. She does a compelling job as an inexperienced but strong-willed newbie. The thing that bothered me is the group of terrorists. They are part silly stereotypes and part artificial concoction. They don't really instill fear except maybe Maxwell. However he's more of a silly stereotype. I simply don't like the villains. The movie feels inferior to the first two movies.
