Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
20 December 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 September 1960, Tainan, Taiwan
16 January 1935, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
4 May 1930, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
11 August 1930, Massachusetts, USA
24 June 1937, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
24 July 1928, Kingston, New York, USA
1 January 1942, Berlin, Germany
30 May 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
7 November 1955, San Francisco, California, USA
16 March 1938, Spokane, Washington, USA
8 March 1961, Caldwell, New Jersey, USA
5 April 1923, Hillside, New Jersey, USA
14 April 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
22 January 1945, Grambling, Louisiana, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
3 December 1962, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
April 02, 2010
A study of the Dirty Harry macho drive, worked out lucidly by the filmmaker and his avenging museJune 18, 2009
The film lags whenever Eastwood isn't on screen, but even his dryly humorous patter can't offset the very sour, mean tone of the rest of the film.March 15, 2008
Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"August 20, 2012
At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.October 23, 2004
To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice.December 11, 2013
Considering that Sudden Impact delivers one of the most memorable lines in movie history, it's surprising how forgettable the rest of it is.May 20, 2003
By my count, more than a dozen people are murdered on camera, about half by Miss Locke and most of the others by Mr. Eastwood. This gives them something in common as lovers.March 26, 2009
This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.May 21, 2010
...stretches the believability factor to the limit, with a story that is all over the map.June 24, 2006
Eastwood the star needed a hit to bolster his flagging ratings; now that he's got it, maybe Harry will be put out to stud, with his Magnum.August 30, 2016
'80s cop-drama sequel has rape, murder, revenge.April 30, 2009
It is viewed by many aficionados as the best of the five movies about the hard-nosed, authority-defying San Francisco cop.