Absolute Power
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings
- Starring: Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman
- Summary: He was where he shouldn't have been, saw what he shouldn't have seen. But who'll believe the word of a career thief and ex-con (Eastwood) when he says he saw a woman killed -- and that the man responsible is the President of the United States? (Warner Bros)
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Positive: 9 out of 21
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Mixed: 9 out of 21
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Negative: 3 out of 21
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100A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top.
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80Sleek and satisfying....Almost a drawing room thriller, unhurried and genteel but enlivened with suspense and surprising bursts of sly, even biting, humor.
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60A film that is entertaining but not seriously absorbing.
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20The embodiment of every conservative paranoid's slathering fantasies about Paula Jones, Vince Foster and Whitewater.
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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PatC.5Unusual premise, good drama in the one-way mirror scene, but eventually the film just drags and is unenlightened and predictable.
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