{"id":6050,"date":"2008-12-31T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T17:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2020-12-31T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:40:04","slug":"magnum-force-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"Magnum Force (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t start shooting at anyone that didn&#8217;t start shooting at me first.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster-193x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster-660x1024.png 660w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster-174x270.png 174w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Poster.png 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Dirty&#8221; Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) hunts down a team of rookie cops who are murdering notorious criminals.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clint Eastwood Films<\/li>\n<li>Police<\/li>\n<li>Vigilantes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this second installment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5347\">&#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221;<\/a> franchise &#8220;lacks the gritty feel and stylistic impositions of the original&#8221; but has some &#8220;tough, cleverly directed&#8221; action scenes and an &#8220;exciting&#8221;, morally ambiguous script (co-written by Michael Cimino). Since the identity of the killers is made clear from the beginning, there&#8217;s no &#8220;murder mystery&#8221; to be solved; instead, the film&#8217;s interest lies primarily in watching how a notorious vigilante cop like Dirty Harry reacts when confronted with a group of sharpshooting fascist rookies (led by <em>blonde<\/em> David Soul) who take his own cynical attitude to a deadly extreme. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-1024x518.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-128x65.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still-1536x777.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still.png 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Harry himself states at one point, &#8220;I hate the goddamn system, but until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I&#8217;ll stick with it.&#8221;) The film&#8217;s title (magnums are ultra-powerful cartridges) hints at an emphasis on firearms and ballistics throughout, and the scene in which Eastwood battles Soul for top prize in a shooting contest is particularly exciting. However, I could do without the inane &#8220;subplot&#8221; involving Harry&#8217;s sexually available Asian neighbor (Adele Yoshioka), whose two-dimensional presence merely serves to tap into Orientalist fantasies.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An intriguing premise<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-1024x495.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-1024x495.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2-1536x742.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-Still2.png 1741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Effective use of San Francisco locales (including the infamously twisty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftravel.com\/lomabardcrookedstreet.html\">Lombard Street<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-1024x499.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-768x374.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City-1536x749.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-City.png 1737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-1024x496.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF-1536x745.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Magnum-Force-SF.png 1747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s certainly worth a look, and must-see for &#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221; completists. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070355\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9803E4D71731E63BBC4E51DFB4678388669EDE\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t start shooting at anyone that didn&#8217;t start shooting at me first.&#8221; Synopsis: &#8220;Dirty&#8221; Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) hunts down a team of rookie cops who are murdering notorious criminals. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Clint Eastwood Films Police Vigilantes Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary notes that this second installment in the &#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221; franchise &#8220;lacks the gritty feel and stylistic impositions of the original&#8221; but has some &#8220;tough, cleverly directed&#8221; action scenes and an &#8220;exciting&#8221;, morally ambiguous script&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6050\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60927,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/60927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}