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Clint Eastwood, in his first film after completing his masterpiece, UNFORGIVEN, chose a winner with Wolfgang Petersen’s suspenseful IN THE LINE OF FIRE. As 30-year customary Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, Eastwood had the distress of protecting President Kennedy, November 22, 1963, and the specter of not reacting expeditiously enough has never fully left him, through the subsequent years. At the other kill of the spectrum is ex-CIA assassin Mitch Leary (brilliantly portrayed by John Malkovich), who had become ‘excess baggage’ for the intelligence community, due to budget cuts. After surviving a bungled attempt to demolish him, Leary decides to vent his rage at his ‘betrayal’ by assassinating the President. In his research, he discovers that the only agent unruffled active from the 1963 team is Horrigan, and, deciding they shared a kinship, he begins to tease Horrigan with clues about himself, and how he’ll ruin the President.
The film builds up a ‘head of steam’ from the very first scene, as Horrigan and his partner, Al D’Andrea (Dylan McDermott, long before television stardom in THE PRACTICE) seize down a band of counterfeiters, and the edginess never lets up, as Leary, introducing himself as ‘Booth’, begins his series of fateful calls to Horrigan. Facing mounting opposition from the head of the Presidential Secret Service team (Gary Cole), as well as the White House Chief of Staff (future Senator Fred Dalton Thompson), Horrigan badgers, insults, and belittles everyone’s work, intellectual the potential assassin will net any crack in the security, and buy advantage of it. Only his boss, Sam Campagna (FRAZIER star John Mahoney), his partner, D’Andrea, and fellow agent Lilly Raines (Rene Russo, in another star-making performance), buy him seriously, with Raines soon falling in like with the cantankerous agent.
The position is elephantine of twists and turns, as Horrigan barely misses capturing Leary, twice, and Leary, at one point, actually saves Horrigan’s life (while ending D’Andrea’s) . Strung so tightly that he starts making unpleasant ‘calls’, Horrigan is finally removed from Presidential security…fair as Leary is about to invent his proceed…
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IN THE LINE OF FIRE does for the Secret Service what BACKDRAFT did for firefighters, and television’s NYPD BLUE did for policemen; it shows the organization not as a group of faceless supermen, but as dedicated people performing an important service, protecting the lives of others. As Leary sneers to Horrigan, “I’m the offense, you’re the defense,” and that analogue truly describes the worry of their job; they must collect the means to protect the President against whatever misdeed a perpetrator can concoct. While Clint Eastwood’s Horrigan may be far more of a ‘lone wolf’ than the Agency would, in true life, tolerate, his dedication to his job reflects well on those fresh individuals who would ‘take a bullet’ for the President.
It is an satisfactory suspense film, and a pleasant addition to any Clint Eastwood collection!
This review refers to the Special Edition DVD(Columbia) ……
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He was there when Kennedy was assassinated. It calm haunts him 30 years later. If he had moved a portion of a second sooner he may have saved his beloved president, But a what cost to him? He is Frank Horrigan(Eastwood), an aging Secret Service Agent, trained to do whatever it takes to protect the President of the United States. Now he has a chance to redeem himself in his absorb eyes.
A psychotic, but very clever, would be presidental assassin is on the loose. He calls himself Booth(Malkovich), (Because Booth had so great more “panache” then Oswald) . He taunts Horrigan about the day Kennedy is shot, through phone calls. Lets him know that he intends to cancel the president,even if it means dying himself, and taking Frank with him.
Frank does everything he can to track down this killer and keep the president. Most of the other agents feel Frank is too customary to maintain up the shuffle of the Presidental Campaign plug,but he feels he must persue this case.
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A deadly cat and mouse game ensues, and we are kept on the edge of our seats throughout the movie,waiting to gape what Booth’s next depart will be, and if Horrigan will be a fragment of it. It’s thrilling and chilling.
Eastwood as always gives a incandescent performance as the aging agent,(He always seems to be an aging something lately,cop,thief, astrounaut,reporter, but he’s sooooo apt at it) and Malkovich is outstanding as the mysterious, chilling assassin. Also contributing greatly to the film are Rene Russo, as the field agent Horrigan takes a shine to and Dylan McDermott as his young partner, and we all know by now that it is not healthy to be Clint’s partner in any film! Directed by the expansive Wolfgang Petersen( Das Boot, Air Force One), and scored by Ennio Morricone, you wont want to miss this thrill slump.
The DVD is top quality. It is in widescreen(Anamorphic),with the sound choices of 5.1 dolby or 2 channel surround. Either device you will be ecstatic with the sound.For me sound is one of the more notable features in an action film. Big portray and colors, lots and lots of special features, I checked out a couple of the featurettes, very attractive and informative. I’m saving some for the next time I gape it. There are subtitiles in English and several other languages for those needing it. If you are a fan of Eastwood, Malkovitch, Petersen or are unbiased in the mood for an action thriller this is a gargantuan one!
Would you bewitch the bullet???? Laurie
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