PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Sleeper-Cell There is a grittiness missing from this last installment of the Dirty Harry series. It had been missing from most of the films but it is really gone here. Harry in this one looks bored, I'm not sure why he would be assigned to the death of a drug addicted celebrity. Why is a remote controlled car being used as a means of assassination? There seems to be a lot of bad guys running around here. Maybe it was my waning interest and the films failure to engage me but I didn't really understand what was happening nor did I care enough to watch it again or rewind to work it out. Jim Carrey's small part is hammy and out of place. Liam Neeson looks the part but also fails to impress. Dirty Harry using a harpoon gun looks more like an attempt at Rambo than a cop dealing with crime. Not to mention the bad guy he shoots with it is armed with a gun and had ample to time to shoot him first. It just lacks the impact of the first film.

ivo-cobra8 The Dead Pool (1988) is Clint Eastwood's most underrated and the fifth final flick in the "Dirty Harry" series. I love this movie and I think is better than The Enforcer. It is one of my personal favorite action movies of all time. It is the last Dirty Harry movie and it is well done with action sequences and great music opening theme. This was the third film I saw in my youth as a child. The first and the second movie were Dirty Harry and Magnum Force. I grew up with this film. The scene where Rook (David Hunt) kills with a knife Walker's (Patricia Clarkson) cameraman scares the hell out of me. Evan C. Kim as Al Quan also did a great solid job Harry's partner since than I don't see him in the film business anymore. I don't agree with critics this film is bad, which is not. I have always loved this movie, I even saw the VHS tape in 2003 on a sale sadly I didn't bought it, but I have now whole collection on Blu-ray disc. Patricia Clarkson was in my opinion much better than the actress Sondra Locke. I love the theme music in the opening scene and I love this action flick. This is the first time I see Jim Carrey in this flick as Johnny Squares who gets murdered in his trailer which the killer fills him with drugs. Liam Neeson is also in here as Peter Swan the movie director who becomes the murder suspect in this flick on a dead pool list of people who also Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) becomes the target as him self in it. This movie was directed by Buddy Van Horn who directed previously Any Which Way You Can (1980) the sequel to Every Which Way but Loose (1978) Clint Eastwood films and Pink Cadillac (1989). The Dead Pool is the fifth and final installment in the Dirty Harry film franchise. The 1988 sequel finds Inspector Callahan (Clint Eastwood) trying to solve a series of murders that appears to be linked to a list of celebrities that were deemed likely to be dead in the near future. The film's cast included Liam Neeson, Evan Kim as well as the feature film debut of Jim Carrey. I think this movie is close to The Rookie (1990) another Clint Eastwood flick that Clint directed it him self and I love it. Because Michael Goodwin who plays the character Lt. Ackerman, the last name Ackerman was later used in Charlie Sheen's character The Rookie (1990). Both of the movies are each other like and they are both good. Just in The Rookie Clint plays different character than Harry Callahan. The basic plot about, this film, is more about a psychopath killer who stalks Hollywood stars including the director and making his own movies. The film does have a plot wholes, like the killer was revealed by the end of the movie and his motives. Just trough whole movie the actor David Hunt is shown by the end of the movie. This great last chapter in the career of Inspector Harry Callahan can not be missed! You have got to check out the remote controlled car chase...reminiscent of that great Sunday drive scene in "BULLITT", with Steve McQueen! Look for the great Jim Carrey acts to GUNS N' ROSES' Welcome To The Jungle, as a junkie rock star...side splitting stuff!! Eastwood delivers the goods in his last appearance as the San Francisco cop who took care of the bad guys...HIS WAY!! BANG...with that .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson hand-cannon!! Be sure to add this movie to your collection. I got the DIRTY HARRY 5 film collection on Blu-ray !! I recommend this movie as well as the others!!The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action film directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry film series, set in San Francisco, California.Back in the day, Roger Ebert called this final Dirty Harry film the best since the original. I'll take it a step further: I think it's the greatest Harry film of all. And he even gets the girl at the end! An awesome end to one of the greatest film series in history...Please just don't let them start remaking these films! I'll have to smother myself! Anyway this movie is great and none, I repeat NONE of the Dirty Harry movies are bad, they are all great and I love them all. This movie deserves 9 from me. This is my fourth favorite film in the series, the last one will be The Enforcer.

Coventry 17 years and four degenerating sequels later, I presume it's about time for Dirty Harry to think about retirement… Throughout the franchise, the legendary character Inspector Harry Callahan has transformed from an unorthodox and nihilistic copper into a bleak and almost laughable caricature, and since the release of the the almighty 1971 original, the big cinema screen got overflowed with similar protagonists, usually depicted by equally grumpy-looking actors (Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris…). By now, Harry's cynical interactions with journalists have become rather dull and routine, and what's also repetitive is the fact that villains fire off entire arsenals of machine gun bullets at him while he just nonchalantly shoots once with his Magnum and kills the opponent immediately. The concept of "The Dead Pool" is still engaging enough, but the film contains far too many dumb sequences, clichéd & predictable sub plots and dire politically correct supportive characters! The glorious days of "punk!" and "Go ahead, make my day…" are gone forever. Around the same time that a jailed mafia boss put a price on his head, Dirty Harry is investigating the strange death of a punk-rock star/actor. He – Johnny Squares – was just shooting a film with the notoriously sleazy and sicko horror director Peter Swan, and Harry – together with his new Asian American partner Quan – discovers that Swan organizes a macabre little game called "dead pool" where he predicts the death of celebrities. The people on this list also actually start dying, and Dirty Harry is on there too! Is Peter Swan really as psychopathic as his reputation suggests? Are the murders controlled from behind bars? Does Lt. Callahan even care? The idea of a celebrity dead pool is quite exciting and some of the supportive characters are fascinating. Jim Carrey briefly appears as the first murder victim Johnny Squares and uses his facial talents to do a funny playback imitation of Guns 'n Roses' classic song "Welcome to the Jungle". The sequence perhaps doesn't fit in a supposedly raw and gritty late '80s thriller, but it's definitely fun. Also Liam Neeson is delightfully loathsome as the scumbag director – complete with ponytail – and, as a horror fanatic, I would really love to watch some of the fictional films that he made. They have titles such as "Hell without the Devil", "Hotel Satan" and "Night of the Slasher"! Where can I buy those? The questionable highlight of "The Dead Pool" is undeniably the long and totally bonkers chase of Callahan & Quan versus a six inch remote controlled toy car with a bomb hidden in it. I honestly can't figure out whether this sequence is meant to be a parody or a genuine moment of suspense. The two actors try very hard to look scared and the stunt work is impressive for sure, but the scene is so damn goofy and implausible that even the good old principle of 'suspension of disbelief' fails! By starring in this otherwise pointless and nonsensical film, I strongly believe that Clint Eastwood was merely just doing a favor to his "Buddy"-director

Desertman84 The Dead Pool is a the fifth and final film of the Dirty Harry film series.Clint Eastwood returns as Inspector "Dirty Harry Callahan with a cast that includes future stars Liam Neeson,Patricia Clarkson and Jim Carrey.In it,we get to see Dirty Harry gets involved in a manipulation of a dead pool by a serial killer.It is written by Steve Sharon and directed by Buddy Van Horn.In the movie,there exists a sports pool on about who among the next famous celebrity that is going to die next.A serial killer tries to somehow manipulate the said pool by changing the odds and doing something about the result.The next victim happens to be Dirty Harry himself together with a high-profile TV journalist.But as the viewer expects,Dirty Harry is able to get through the threats and manages to capture the said serial killer before further celebrity killings happens ahead.At this point of the series,fans know what to expect from a Dirty Harry film.The screenplay gets into business right away and places some car chase that is run by a remote control for good measure.But too bad that it loses some edginess and less excitement.The only refreshing element in it is how the killings are made for they are more brutal and a lot violent.But in spite of it,Eastwood still manages to provide entertainment in the role that made him an icon.It was good that this was Dirty Harry's last film for a sequel would have been disastrous.