Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790735009 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0790735008 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 28, 1998 Running Time: 120 minutes Sales Rank: 65839 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 07, 1990
Amazon.com: This somewhat desperate-looking project pairs the aging Clint Eastwood (he also directed) with a younger actor (Charlie Sheen) who was hot at the time this film was made (1990). There's certainly nothing wrong with that strategy, but it would have helped if Eastwood had a decent story to wrap around his commercial strategy. The senior star plays a grizzled cop with a smooth-faced preppie (Sheen) as a new partner. Their odd-couple shtick is as predictable as one would expect, with each man approaching the same job with a wholly different set of convictions from the other. Inexplicably, Eastwood also hired Raul Julia and Sonia Braga to plays Germans, but then the scene most people remember in this movie is Braga's rape of Eastwood--indeed an unusual moment. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Eastwood on automatic pilot but...
Clint Eastwood on automatic pilot is a lot better than some peoples best films, so make no mistake this may be the worst film ever that he directed himself but its still pretty good. In fact for me it would have been 3.5 stars.
Its really a Dirty Harry film under another name, and with a decent cast including the always watchable Charlie Sheen its an easy way to pass an hour and a half. There are a couple of laugh out loud moments, especially the seat belt gag.
Of course the reason to watch the film is the man himself. Aged 61 when this was made he was still in top shape and is effortlessly cool throughout the film. Some of the dialogue isn't as good as that in the classic Dirty Harry films but there's still enough laconic lines for the Eastwood fan to get by on.
So its no classic by Eastwood standards, but as comedy/cop/thrillers go, which also happens to star a living legend, ... Read More
Rating: - Mercifully Forgotten
Clint Eastwood has always been one of the biggest movie stars in the world and it's not that we always want to see him do the same things over and over again...but he doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to comedy. If you've suffered through BRONCO BILLY or PINK CADILLAC, you know what I mean. They work about as well as playing Dirty Harry in a clown suit.
From what I could stomach of THE ROOKIE, it's the same thing. I think most of it was meant to be a comedy. I think. If it was meant as a comedy, THE ROOKIE puts EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE into the Classics category of comedies.
And after 20-some years of Charlie Sheen, it's obvious he got where he did because of his father. In his biggest roles, PLATOON and WALL STREET, he's the new recruit, the empty suit, the fresh-faced nobody who barely shows up on film. Oddly enough, he's shown more life in his hooker-cluttered party ... Read More
Rating: - A lot better (and different) than its reputation suggests....
I had pretty low expectations going into this film (the reviews have been generally negative), but I was surprised how much I liked it, and surprised by its tone. It has a reputation of being the 6th Dirty Harry movie in disguise, which is not true. Sure, Clint's character, Nick, has many similar qualities to that of Dirty Harry, but this film is a lot different than the Dirty Harry films.
The film is rather dark, both literally and figuratively. The film takes place mostly at night in dark interiors, and aside from a few one liners from Eastwood, Sheen, Julia, and a few select cops, it's a mostly serious film. It's also pretty violent, and not really in a cartoonish way. There's a scene in a bar where Charlie, looking for information about Clint (who has been taken hostage), spits a fireball in a bartender's face, beats up several patrons, beats up one guard dog and shoots another (even though we don't ... Read More
Rating: - Hey! This is a good film!
I don't understand why there are so many slams against this movie posted here...this is a very exciting, action-packed film! Maybe these critics aren't Charlie Sheen fans or sumpin'...but this film kept me riveted all the way thru it!
Clint's character, cop Nick Pulovski, has hints and traces of Dirty Harry Callahan, so fans of that series should enjoy this film; Charlie Sheen is the rookie detective who Clint gets stuck with as his new partner - Clint's old partner, played by Hal Williams ("Smitty" the cop on the old SANFORD & SON tv show) gets offed by Raul Julia (who plays an exceptionally evil criminal) and Raul's girlfriend/female alter ego, played by Sonia Braga (who looks INCREDIBLE!!!). These two and their goons run an auto theft ring (and perform a few murders along the way), all the while being stalked and staked out by Clint and Charlie. The film begins with an outstanding chase sequence on the freeway, ... Read More
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- Hey! This is a good film!
