The Dead Pool

Where Sudden Impact felt like someone inelegantly added Harry Callahan to an unrelated script, The Dead Pool feels like some taking the most generic cop script in existence and changing the generic cop’s name to Harry Callahan while still managing to get Clint Eastwood to reprise the role for the last time. That’s not to say it’s bad. That’s also not to imply it’s good, either. It’s an incredibly middle of the road yarn that would have been completely forgotten if it weren’t for its place as...