Tagline: An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them...
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Written by: Jeff MacGuire
Actors include: Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, John Malkovich
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
Length: 128 minutes
Banned: Nope
Review:
Although this does offer a ton of action packed excitement and some violence, it's not as awesome as it could have been. See it really didn't need to go over 2 hours in length and the romance thrown in seemed just that. Clint Eastwood plays secret service agent Frank Horrington who lives with regret because he didn't jump in front of the bullet that killed JFK but he could have. Now he's much older of course and despite everyone telling him to retire he's determined to help catch a killer who taunts him. The killer (John Malkovich) is rather cunning, a great shot and also is completely insane. The killer and Frank play cat and mouse for most of the movie until of course an exciting showdown involving rooftop jumping occurs. Frank of course has to battle the force and deal with hunches and adversity blah blah blah. It's honestly pretty fun and quite high budget, but trying to make it so "Hollywood" and throwing in that romantic junk with fellow agent Rene Russo was irritating. Definitely still worth watching, the good parts are high octane, and Eastwood is still really fun to watch, it just could have been so much more.
Availability: On DVD & Blu-Ray
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