I think so. While the others have some great scenes, I think the original Dirty Harry is still the most gritty. It has the best villain anyway. What do you guys think?
If you're interested to see my rankings of all five Dirty Harry films, you can check them out here: http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2010/09/the-best-dirty-harry-movies.php
The original Dirty harry is a visual FEAST upon San Francisco, they used the plot to show the 360 panoramas of the city - TWICE - from helicopters and rooflines - and they had the brilliance to use fantastic sound scores for this film, including a Jimi Hendrix Tribute (when Scorpio is stalking the gay couple in the park) and many others too numerous to name. And yes, the Scorpio character in this movie is probably the most hate-able bad-guy who ever appeared in a cop movie. And Clint Eastwood - who could have possibly done a better job of playing Dirty Harry ??
shareWell, this or 'Sudden Impact'...
shareDirty Harry is a friggin classic. It created the cowboy cop character that has been seen in numerous films since and still to this day delivers plenty of suspense and thrills.
I personally think Magnum Force was a great sequel. Sure the pacing isn't a well as the original and Harry seems to be a little less misanthropic but it's still a great movie. Along with the original, I'd say it's one of the best cop movies.
The Enforcer was okay but it took a lighter tone, the villains are forgettable and it just doesn't have the same spark that the first two had. Sudden Impact is a little iffy. I think the seens with Eastwood are great but I just can't get on board with the whole pro-vigilante side of the film (At times the rape victim appears more demented than the rapists). I think I need to see Dead Pool again but when I first saw it I was entertained but still it felt tired and somewhat silly.
So yeah, Dirty Harry still reins supreme.
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I would say this movie would run third place behind Sudden Impact & Magnum Force. Harry is a bit too one-dimensional in Dirty Harry and the story too black & white with no subplots to the typical cop movie of the good guy vs bad guy you have seen many times before & since...
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Its been a while since I've seen them, but yes, it is the best to me and always has been. I rank them:
1) Dirty Harry
2) Magnum Force
3) Sudden Impact
4) The Enforcer
5) The Dead Pool
I would call this one the best.
"Her body, her choice."-God
I haven't seen sudden impact yet but I guess my favorites are dirty harry and magnum force
shareI agree with the general sentiment that the first is the best, with Magnum. Force second...but although it seems not a whole lot of people like The. Enforcer, it has always held a place in my heart....it was the first DH I ever saw, and it was always on cable when I was a kid, plus that knife, with the brass knuckles on it that Bobby Maxwell uses to kill the elderly security guard and DiGiorgio is a terrifying prop! Those two scenes still haunt me...
"It is hard to be a man of peace. It would be so pleasant to kill Mr. Weddle." - Massai, 'Apache'
The problem with the Enforcer is it lacked the snappy quip that became the trademark of the other movies...nevertheless, Sudden Impact is my fave of the later 3 sequels: not only because it had the highest bodycount of all the DH movies, but also because 'National Lampoon' parodied the title in a faux movie poster ('Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke & Chief Dan George in Sudden Random Violence')
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