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100It's movie making of the high, smooth, commercial order that Hollywood prides itself on but achieves with singular infrequency.
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88The 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.
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88The result is a finely tuned suspense thriller, though executives who have recently laid off trained killers may experience some discomfort.
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80In truth, every part of this film trades so heavily on Eastwood's presence that it is impossible to imagine it with anyone else in the starring role. [09 Jul 1993 Pg. F1]
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80What neophyte scripterscripter Jeff Maguire's plot comes down to, however, is the cat-and-mouse game between Horrigan and Leary, and the craftiness and strategies involved on both sides, while not exactly ingenious, are tantalizing enough to compel interest.
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80It's not the deepest thematic concern you ever saw on screen. But it's watchable, great fun.
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Both Eastwood's performance and the movie itself have the quality of meat-and-potatoes genre-picture entertainment: nothing fancy, nothing unusual.
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78In the Line of Fire is a terrific action movie with good performances and a smart script that occasionally falters for trying too hard but, on the whole, takes us on psychological journeys that few of us have had opportunities to experience.
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75Eastwood hasn't had this much fun with a role in years, and his joy is contagious.
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75Petersen takes what could have been a muddled motion picture and structures it perfectly, creating a strong piece of entertainment. It helps, of course, that he has a capable cast.
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75With all of that going for it, it's hard to see how In the Line of Fire could be anything less than rock-solid entertainment-and, indeed, it is. Yet it's never more than that.
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63In the tautly terrific thriller In the Line of Fire , Clint Eastwood toys with his own grizzled-vet screen image like a frisky kitten with a yarn ball. [09 Jul 1993 Pg. 01.D]
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63This is a movie that works well when it works, and lazes around the rest of the time.
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60The real battle here is between two generations of acting styles: meticulous method vs. star quality.
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60If you don't care about such motivations, this is a pretty good thriller, though not one you're likely to remember for very long.
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40Working from the script by Jeff Maguire, director Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot") plods through the narrative as if he were completely unconcerned with giving it even a semblance of credibility.
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