If memory serves, this is considered the "Star Trek 5" of the "Dirty Harry" franchise. Hated by a lot of fans. I'm an oddball. This is my favorite one.
If you were observing this nutty planet, would YOU want to make contact?
I just saw this movie for the first time last night and I really loved it! Of course I'm familiar with the franchise but I've never actually bothered to watch any of the "Dirty Harry" movies. Now I want to watch them all! I don't get the criticism for "Dead Pool" at all though. I thought it was great and highly entertaining and suspenseful.
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'The Dead Pool' is also one of my favorites of the 'Dirty Harry' franchise. It hits the ground running with the attempted hit after crossing the Bay Bridge into San Francisco. The idea of a 'dead pool' was brilliant: predicating the deaths of celebrities who are presumed to be at high risk-which would include police work-and to have this contest of sorts investigated by cops, one of whom winds up on the list of one of the players of this sick game-bizarre and fascinating, and, completely San Francisco.
Clint Eastwood is most accessible in this, because he's a target. His repartee with his partner, played by Evan C. Kim, is funny. The essential elements of this franchise are all there: Inspector Callahan's disdain for police bureaucracy; his almost android-like shootout with robbers at the restaurant in Chinatown ("you forgot your fortune cookie"); the dressing down of the self-indulgent movie maker ("sounds pretty sick to me"); the car chase (perhaps a kind of homage to the film 'Bullet'); the final shootout, this time on a pier, replete with a telling pun about the psychotic killer ("He's hanging out back").
'The Deal Pool' is a great entry in the series.
I think you've all been lobotomized!
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