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- 1984
- R
- 1 h 54 m
- 1984
- R
- 1 h 54 m
Summary New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
Directed By: Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood
Written By: Richard Tuggle
- 1984
- R
- 1 h 54 m
- 1984
- R
- 1 h 54 m
Tightrope
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5.7
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Summary New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.
Directed By: Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood
Written By: Richard Tuggle
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
61
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Apart from the other good things in Tightrope, I admire it for taking chances; Clint Eastwood can get rich making Dirty Harry movies, but he continues to change and experiment, and that makes him the most interesting of the box-office megastars.
Action is well-handled, as Tuggle demonstrates ample storytelling talent and draws a multitude of nuances from his cast.
A film about desire and its control is hardly what one might expect, but then Eastwood has always been Hollywood's most experimental star. And he's still one of the best.
There are two ways to look at Tightrope: as a Clint Eastwood Hollywood vehicle, or as a world-class movie that deserves to be judged with the best. By the first standard, Tightrope is an exceptionally realized thriller; by the second, it is an interesting failure, a movie that loses its nerve and resolves its contradictions in the slam-bang heroics of formula moviemaking. [18 Aug 1984]
There isn't much conceptual or stylistic integrity in Tightrope. It's calculated to function at the most expedient and spurious levels of nightmarish artifice. [17 Aug 1984, p.D1]
Bruce Surtees' dark, moody cinematography is typically masterful, but its translation to video leaves some scenes a bit murky.
Tuggle keeps whomping us on the skull with good-evil symbolism, but the movie has no more depth than the usual exploitation film in which pretty girls are knocked off.
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