Magnum Force

This movie doesn’t feel like it really begins for an hour. Considering that it’s the longest of the Dirty Harry movies, that really tells me that Ted Post and his editor Ferris Webster needed to pare down its opening half majorly. It’s introduction of the entire concept is repetitive while the main character feels curiously uninvolved for such a long stretch, that it massively tempers the effects of the final half. That final half does show a surprisingly thoughtful approach to the very fine...