Absolute Power

This is a real change of direction for Eastwood. The Bridges of Madison County following the elegiac A Perfect World felt like a natural progression, but moving from The Bridges of Madison County to a violent, Hitchcockian thriller about corruption at the highest levels of governmental power is a real turn of events. Eastwood adapts the novel by David Baldacci using a script by William Goldman and turns out a well-made and entertaining thrill ride that doesn’t quite have the weight and heft ...