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- 1990
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
- 1990
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
Summary A veteran detective gets stuck with a rookie cop when in pursuit of a German crook.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel
- 1990
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
- 1990
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h
The Rookie
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5.7
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Summary A veteran detective gets stuck with a rookie cop when in pursuit of a German crook.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
41
21% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
47% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
The Rookie is a generally enjoyable variation on some extremely familiar themes, filled out with the most spectacular action sequences Eastwood has ever filmed and a good dose of the dyspeptic humor that is becoming the hallmark of his late career as an actor. [07 Dec 1990, p.C]
There's action aplenty in The Rookie, but director and star Clint Eastwood supplies his tired cop-buddy formula with an oddball tone that lifts it slightly above the genre. [07 Dec 1990, p.53p]
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Based on 10 User Ratings
5.7
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What The Rookie feels like is an assembly of scenes that were not attached to characters we can care about. The dialogue is wooden, or artificial, or self-consciously cute. Most of the characters are not given even perfunctory development.
The Rookie is an astonishingly empty movie to come from Mr. Eastwood.
Eastwood also directed, in a plodding, heavy-handed style that leaves little to the imagination and less to the sense of humor. Every scene is as predictable as the chase that precedes or follows it. [07 Dec 1990, p.3F]
