Clint Eastwood's last action film role has a 96% score in rotting tomatoes

In 1993 Clint Eastwood's year of the victory. After winning the best picture and the best director for “unforgives” in March (which, in addition to the critical success, also entered 101 million US dollars at the North American box office), he would be the toast of Hollywood when he promoted two very different films: “In the line of fire” and “A Perfect World”. The latter was awaited by the two, if only because it would mark his direction for “unforgives” and combined him on the screen with the best director winner of the 90s, Kevin Costner.

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“In the fire line” was not a strange film on the surface. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the famous German director of “Das Boot”, it was an action thriller with an irresistible catch. Eastwood was occupied as Frank Horrigan, a boring intelligence agent who was targeted by a psychopath who plans to kill the President of the United States. Horrigan is no longer in detail, and this is for a very good reason: he is the only member of the agency who was part of John F. Kennedy's autocolonnne in Dallas on the day of the president's attack. A necessary horrigan is back in the protection and believes that he is the only agent that is best equipped to catch this disturbed murderer.

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But “in the fire line” was a unique project for Eastwood, not only because he did not lead it. And it is possible that this aspect of the production of the film enabled him to stand out from the films that he had made before “unimaginated” and a lot of what he would do.

When Clint Eastwood founded the Malpaso Company in 1968, he was removed for a year to become the largest western star in the world. He was already the western top star outside the United States, but due to legal concerns with regard to the obvious similarities between “A fistful of Dollars” and Akira Kurosawas “Yojimbo” (obviously because they both worked from Dashiell Hammett's “red harvest” and “The glass key”. As “a fistful of dollars”, “for a few more” and “the good,” The bad and the ugly “met us in 1967, the Americans were suddenly as gaga for Clint as the rest of the world.

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Eastwood bravely sat on himself and this bet paid off well. From that point on, he only made films by Malpaso. This makes “in the fire line” an extreme rarity when it was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. This was Eastwood's first non-Malpaso film since the 1970s “Kelly's Heroes”, and it was really Petersen's film. It is definitely the most directed The film Eastwood has been “Dirty Harry” since Don Siegel, which was refreshing because the idea of ​​the star of an action film was the idiotomy of “The Rookie” at that time.

This was basically Eastwood's last pure action film and it is a beauty. In 2002 he led and played in the “Blood Work” by Brian Helgeland “Blood Work”, but it is an atmospheric “Dirty Harry” reef that is only top -class on excitement. So let's consider “in the fire line” by Eastwood's farewell to actioner. And since it comes to mind, let us get a Rewatch because Petersen's film hits the brand every time.

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