a5c7b9f00b Harry Callahan - or Dirty Harry as he is known from the previous four movies in this series - is investigating a strange betting game. A list of local celebrities has been handed out, and bets are being taken on who will be the first to die. Things start to get interesting when the name 'Harry Callahan' appears on the list.
Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target.
Spoilers There have been many great car chases in Hollywood history, Bullitt and The French Connection are two that spring readily to mind. Even the earlier Dirty Harry films had exciting chases. But what do we get here? Grown men being chased by a toy car.<br/><br/>A toy car! <br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure whether this was meant to be serious or some sort of satire, but I laughed out loud at this sequence, mostly out of embarrassment of how pathetic it was. Leaving aside how underwhelming this looks, Can a battery powered toy car really keep up with a petrol driven real car? And, for that matter, could something that size contain enough plastic explosive to do any real damage? <br/><br/>The rest of the flick is strictly by the numbers. Harry&#39;s most Politically Correct sidekick (wasn&#39;t PC parodied in the rather better The Enforcer?) is also the dullest. The actor in question is given to baffled stares (perhaps because of the lacklustre script) and one is not saddened when he meets the violent accident which befalls all of Harry&#39;s sidekicks (the only sad thing is that it wasn&#39;t fatal, but then fatality only seems to befall Harry&#39;s interesting partners).
When rock star Johnny Squares dies while taking part in a film, the cause of death is initially thought to be a drug overdose, but before long it is discovered that he was actually poisoned. Suspicion falls upon Peter Swan, the director of the film; not only did he and Squares have a very public quarrel on the set just before the singer&#39;s death, but it also comes to light that he had been playing a macabre gambling game called &quot;Dead Pool&quot;. The idea is that each of the participants in the game comes up with a list of eight celebrities who are believed to be likely to die over the coming year; at the end of the year the winner is the participant who has correctly predicted the greatest number of deaths. And Squares just happened to be one of the names on Swan&#39;s list. Another of the names is that of Inspector Harry Callahan, the detective assigned to the case.<br/><br/>Swan starts to look even more guilty when several other celebrities on his list, including a film critic who had rubbished his works, die in suspicious circumstances and Callahan survives an attempt to kill him using a remote-controlled toy car filled with explosives. Of course, it is a general rule in films like this that if a suspect appears to be obviously guilty, he is almost certainly innocent, and so it proves with Swan. The question then becomes, who is trying to frame him? <br/><br/>Clint Eastwood created the character of Harry Callahan in &quot;Dirty Harry&quot; in 1971. Although the first film ends with Harry throwing away his police badge, the character proved too popular for the series to end there, and over the next seventeen years Eastwood made four sequels of which &quot;The Dead Pool&quot; was the last. As always, Harry is a controversial figure, arrogant and uncompromising, prepared to bend the rules in order to bring suspected criminals to justice.<br/><br/>&quot;The Dead Pool&quot; is, however, a very different film to &quot;Dirty Harry&quot;. Although the &quot;tough cop&quot; formula was becoming over-familiar in the early seventies, Don Siegel was able to use it to ask some difficult questions about law enforcement, civil rights and the nature of justice, which meant that &quot;Dirty Harry&quot; was not just a cop thriller but also an exploration of moral and philosophical issues. There is none of that in &quot;The Dead Pool&quot;, which combines thrills not with moral philosophy but with satirical comedy, largely at the expense of the media and the modern cult of public relations. Harry&#39;s superiors are worried about the bad PR he seems to be attracting at a time when they are trying to improve their image; he, however, is old-fashioned enough to believe that being a cop is more about fighting crime than talking to the media, even though the film has a sub-plot about his love/hate relationship with an attractive female journalist.<br/><br/>There is plenty of satire at the expense of various media figures; the British director of violent exploitation movies (Michael Winner?), the vitriolic female film critic (Pauline Kael?) and the drug-ridden rock star (too many examples to choose from) are all recognisable types. The film even satirises the &quot;tough cop&quot; genre itself; the scene in which Harry desperately tries to outrun the explosive-laden toy car is an obvious reference to the car chase scene in &quot;Bullitt&quot;, also set in San Francisco. Although some reviewers have taken exception to this sequence for its lack of realism, it is obvious that this part of the film was never intended to be taken seriously.<br/><br/>The problem with the film as a whole is that one is never sure whether it is intended to be taken seriously or not. It is not (unlike, say, the &quot;Naked Gun&quot; films) a deliberate parody of the cop movie, but rather an unconscious self-parody, an uneasy mixture of thriller and comedy. It is, in places, too serious and violent to work as a comedy, but also too comic to work as a thriller. It is perhaps not surprising that this was the last in the series. Although Eastwood, who was fifty-eight at the time of &quot;The Dead Pool&quot;, continued making action films in his sixties (&quot;Unforgiven&quot;, &quot;In the Line of Fire&quot;, Absolute Power&quot;) these are all an older man&#39;s films in which the hero&#39;s age is an important point in the plot. He clearly realised that the world did not need a sixth &quot;Dirty Harry&quot; film. Did it really need a fifth? 4/10
With its stylized story-line and almost styleless direction, it sometimes resembles a juggling act with sledgehammers. [13 Jul 1988, p.1]
The policemen are watching horror movie clips on TV. The UK VHS lacks the parts from The Pack (A woman sitting in a car is being attacked by dogs) and It&#39;s Alive III (The woman in the taxi gives birth to her demon child). There are five: (1) <a href="/title/tt0066999/">Dirty Harry (1971)</a> (1971), (2) <a href="/title/tt0070355/">Magnum Force (1973)</a> (1973), (3) <a href="/title/tt0074483/">The Enforcer (1976)</a> (1976), (4) <a href="/title/tt0086383/">Sudden Impact (1983)</a> (1983), and (5) The Dead Pool (1988).
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