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...Enforcer's plot is agonizingly similar to its predecessors. Big trouble is brewing in San Francisco and all of San Francisco's finest are unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot...
Still, like all Eastwood films, The Enforcer is permeated with explicit violence. In the course of the story innumerable people are shot, knifed, burned and run over. Unfortunately, the people who form the market for these movies have demonstrated time and time again that violence sells. As long as moviegoers support violent films, the genre will flourish...
With a conclusion more clearly condemning the waste and immortality of violence, The Enforcer might have been a significant film. But as it stands, with a moral you have to hallucinate to see, it becomes just another Clint Eastwood flick that you forget about the week after...
...being advertised as the dirtiest Harry of them all, but this third adventure of the San Francisco cop who finds nothing but bureaucratic blundering above him and unpunished crime all around him shows Clint Eastwood's creation in a mellow mood. Oh, he can still total a liquor store in the course of rescuing hostages, and he still has the fastest lip in the business when backtalking a superior. But in The Enforcer, Harry appears halfway along the road to becoming a lovable old curmudgeon...
...OUTLAW JOSEY WALES. Clint EaStwood directs and stars in a self-consciously classic western, in which bloody circumstances turn a peaceable man into a vengeful killer. He carries his grudge over many years and half a continent before he can lay his ghosts to rest. Josey Wales recalls just how satisfying this once great popular form...