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74 out of 100

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  • Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo
  • Summary: Eastwood stars as Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect John F. Kennedy from assassination. Thirty years later, he gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him. (Sony Pictures)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    100
    It's movie making of the high, smooth, commercial order that Hollywood prides itself on but achieves with singular infrequency.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    The director is Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot"), who is able to unwind the plot like clockwork while at the same time establishing the characters as surprisingly sympathetic.
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    60
    The real battle here is between two generations of acting styles: meticulous method vs. star quality.

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