Sudden Impact

Quite forgettable. Eastwood is still good as Harry, OK in the direction and the new thing is to have a woman as the main criminal but that's it. 80's music arrive to wipe out one of the few things that were good about these movies. The plot is really bad. Quite an example of early 80's movies.

r96sk

January 18, 2022

7/10

An improvement on <em>'The Enforcer'</em>, if still short of <em>'Dirty Harry'</em> and <em>'Magnum Force'</em>. Clint Eastwood (also dir.) remains the constant high of these films, as the American rattles off a famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ahead,_make_my_day">catchphrase</a> in this installment. Sondra Locke is very good behind Eastwood, she's arguably the most standout support cast member from the whole series (thus far) to be honest. A deep storyline coupled with all…

CinemaSerf

August 31, 2025

6/10

This fourth outing from Clint Eastwood’s “Callaghan” is my least favourite. By now we are more than used to this curmudgeonly inspector, and his disdain for just about every aspect of authority he encounters so we are hardly surprised when his latest ruthless example of law enforcement sees carnage all around, the city looking at hefty bills and him with a price on his head. “Capt. Briggs” (Bradford Dillman) decides to get him out of harm’s way just as, coincidentally, a serial killer is terrori…