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...Clint Eastwood is back--he's still mean, he's still tough, but now he's old. "In the Line of Fire" shows Eastwood in the type of role he was meant to play, the "has been" reaching for all the glory he can muster. Quality acting, exciting action scenes and deep characters make this one of the better action films...
...Clint Eastwood has always been an old man. Even in the '60s, as the gunslinger in Sergio Leone westerns, Eastwood had the squinty eyes, sour mouth and weary walk of a soldier who had been in too many wars. The six-day stubble hid countless psychic scars; the cigar butt stuck between his teeth suggested a world gone up in smoke; the poncho he wore could have been a shroud. As Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only...
...real battle here is between two generations of acting styles: meticulous method vs. star quality. On offense is Malkovich the master thespian, building a character with wigs and fake noses, gunning the menace by alternating a spooky stillness with violent shifts of his wispy, lispy voice. On defense is Clint the listener, the reactor, whose worn, handsome face is his technique. In these moments, you see agitated Actor and aging Star in a hot war of wits. The shoot-out is wonderful to watch...
...Clint Eastwood...
...back on the road to success immediately. Luckily for Columbia, next week the studio is releasing In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood's entertaining, hugely commercial thriller, which will help the bosses forget this bad patch -- Arnold? Arnold who? -- and turn them back into blithe motion-picture geniuses, their jobs safe. "Remember," says an executive who knows Canton and Guber, "Guber is inextricably tied to this guy." Inextricably? "Yes," the bigwig confirms. "For a while, anyway...