Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Theatrical Release: 07/13/1988(USA)
Release Date: 06/03/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol/Japanese/Por
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The Dead Pool is the fifth and (thus far) the last of
Clint Eastwood's
Dirty Harry movies. A sports pool is placing bets on which famous person will die next. Suddenly a serial killer who preys upon celebrities enters the scene, radically (and perhaps deliberately) changing the odds in the pool. As a celebrity of sorts, maverick cop
Dirty Harry Callahan becomes a target of the killer, as does high-profile TV journalist
Patricia Clarkson. Surprises are at a minimum in
The Dead Pool; the film gets down to business quickly, moves logically if violently towards its climax (with a spectacular car-chase sequence thrown in for good measure), and delivers exactly what its fans expect. One major difference between this film and the earlier
Dirty Harry epics is that the murders are committed in so outrageous a fashion that the picture seems at times to be a
Freddie Krueger vehicle.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
