maxwell came off as a dorky villain?
I think he did. He had limited screen time and for what he add, he had no memorable lines whatsoever and he hardly had ANY menacing things about him. His death kinda sucked too. Not only was it sudden but I would've thought he'd get stabbed with his own knife.
Even Harlan Rook is better than THIS guy.
who else agrees?
"I'm your huckleberry."-Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone
Yep, I agree totally!
ILOVEtrading films!I've got a HUGE..uh..collection!Please ask!
____L@th3
Disagree. The Enforcer's pre-credit scene is one of the most memorable in the series. The knife in the back, and exploding beer bottle scene stuck with me. Every I saw him looming on camera I knew someone was gonna get shanked. The rocket launcher ending kicked ass, though. Gotta disagree with you, there. Harry knifing someone just doesn't seem right. The tower explosion was over the top and therefore pretty fitting. The terror prior to Harry hitting the launch is what should be focused on.
I may not know a lot, but I do know "a lot" is two words.
He reminded me of Will ferrel throughout the whole film, his death I thought looked cool but if Clint did him in with his own knife it would have just been like the Outlaw Josey Wales.
sharewell...it's hard to follow Scorpio
shareFor me the problem with the Enforcer over most of the others is the one-dimensional nature of the top brass and the lowlifes. The only character receiving any kind of development is Tyne Daly - and even then, nowhere near enough to make anyone give a damn.
I feel that the Enforcer was a quickly-assembled cash-in rather than anything remotely thought-provoking, which at least Dirty Harry and Magnum Force achieved.
I agree with c-huddleston. It was a normal Dirty Harry outing at the most, whilst the first two had some kind of magnifying depth prowess that made you interested in what the characters did and why they interacted.
And in response to an earlier post, I can agree that it is definately a "cool" moment when Maxwell shanks the dude and blows away the other one with the shotgun- but that's just about his only shine of screentime in the entire film.
"I'm your huckleberry."-Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone
And right at the beginning of the movie, giving him nothing worthwhile to do for the rest of it until he realises he's about to be on the wrong end of the law (or should that be LAWS?) for the last time.
shareI think what's missing today is the context. The Peoples Revolutionary Strike Force was inspired by the Symbionese Liberation Front (the Patty Hearst People), so whatever might have been missing from his performance was informed in the minds of the public about groups like the PRSF thanks to the SLF and, to some extent, the Manson family.
I think Deveren Bookwalter's portrayal is dead-on for what they wanted: a kooky-eyed, charismatic pretty boy. The scene where's he's introduced is on the Warner site for the new DVD set-- you can kind of get a sense of how they were establishing him.
The characters (all of the PRSF) are kind of one-dimensional when taken out of the context of who people were familiar with during that era for sure, though.
Yep. He had a stupid bug eye expression that was meant to be psychotic but just looked laughable to me.
shareNo
shareHe was a sinister enough. He killed the electricians, killed Frank and executed Miki a member of his cause. Not to me tion blowing up that bathroom He did enough in the little screen time he had to me.
share