Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
3 January 1930, Santa Monica, California, USA
February 18, 1951 in Napa Valley, California, USA
15 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
22 January 1945, Grambling, Louisiana, USA
27 October 1943, Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
12 September 1960, Tainan, Taiwan
December 11, 2013
Considering that Sudden Impact delivers one of the most memorable lines in movie history, it's surprising how forgettable the rest of it is.
May 21, 2010
...stretches the believability factor to the limit, with a story that is all over the map.
June 24, 2006
Eastwood the star needed a hit to bolster his flagging ratings; now that he's got it, maybe Harry will be put out to stud, with his Magnum.
June 18, 2009
The film lags whenever Eastwood isn't on screen, but even his dryly humorous patter can't offset the very sour, mean tone of the rest of the film.
May 20, 2003
By my count, more than a dozen people are murdered on camera, about half by Miss Locke and most of the others by Mr. Eastwood. This gives them something in common as lovers.
March 26, 2009
This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.
August 30, 2016
'80s cop-drama sequel has rape, murder, revenge.
October 23, 2004
To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice.
August 20, 2012
At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.
March 15, 2008
Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"
April 30, 2009
It is viewed by many aficionados as the best of the five movies about the hard-nosed, authority-defying San Francisco cop.
April 02, 2010
A study of the Dirty Harry macho drive, worked out lucidly by the filmmaker and his avenging muse
