In the Line of Fire
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
24 May 1950
23 July 1967, Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA
17 January 1966, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1949, USA
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
19 August 1942, Sheffield, Alabama, USA
21 September 1929, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1 January 1946, Houston, Texas, USA
6 November 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 August 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 July 1961
20 June 1940, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
July 30, 2013
It just builds, relationship by relationship, detail by detail, clever stroke by clever stroke, taking you in and making you its own. It ought to wear a sign: Danger. Professionals At Work.
July 30, 2013
Director Wolfgang Petersen moves the story along, but his real job is to simply stay out of the way of his two racehorse lead actors. And he does.
July 30, 2013
Between them, director Petersen and screenwriter Jeff Maguire do a memorable job developing their characters in this story of personal and professional redemption.
July 30, 2013
What separates In The Line Of Fire from the rest of the bog-standard good-guy/bad-guy set-up is the clear implication throughout that these two sworn enemies have more in common than they may think.
May 18, 2016
...a seriously superior thriller that remains, more than 20 years later, one of the best examples of the genre.
July 30, 2013
Petersen directs his film in a straightforward, workmanlike fashion-few surprises here -- and, curiously, for most of the film is better at establishing a kind of amiability than a hard tension.
July 30, 2013
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.
August 13, 2014
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, In the Line of Fire builds a palpable tension between the Eastwood and Malkovich characters.
July 30, 2013
Preposterous but still thoroughly involving, this tense, kinetic, ingenious thriller is the thinking fan's action movie.
July 30, 2013
Despite the presence of all these action-flick cliches, In the Line of Fire works. Sure, it's no more than a formula movie, but it's an effective formula movie.
July 30, 2013
Eerie assassin and protector are perfectly balanced in this classy entertainment.
July 30, 2013
The movie has a clear, simple thriller logic that's far more satisfying than the static variations-on-a-massacre construction of Eastwood's Dirty Harry pictures and spaghetti Westerns.
