Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
27 December 1932, USA
11 April 1914, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
15 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
6 March 1956, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
28 May 1944, Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA
February 18, 1951 in Napa Valley, California, USA
12 November 1918, Paducah, Kentucky, USA
28 October 1950, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
3 January 1930, Santa Monica, California, USA
20 December 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
16 January 1935, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
16 March 1938, Spokane, Washington, USA
26 July 1901, Zawiercie, Poland, Russian Empire [now Zawiercie, Slaskie, Poland]
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
22 January 1945, Grambling, Louisiana, USA
20 May 1930, Rennert, North Carolina, USA
27 October 1943, Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA
30 May 1954, Newark, New Jersey, USA
May 21, 2010
...stretches the believability factor to the limit, with a story that is all over the map.
March 26, 2009
This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.
August 30, 2016
'80s cop-drama sequel has rape, murder, revenge.
April 02, 2010
A study of the Dirty Harry macho drive, worked out lucidly by the filmmaker and his avenging muse
December 11, 2013
Considering that Sudden Impact delivers one of the most memorable lines in movie history, it's surprising how forgettable the rest of it is.
April 30, 2009
It is viewed by many aficionados as the best of the five movies about the hard-nosed, authority-defying San Francisco cop.
June 24, 2006
Eastwood the star needed a hit to bolster his flagging ratings; now that he's got it, maybe Harry will be put out to stud, with his Magnum.
August 20, 2012
At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.
March 15, 2008
Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"
May 20, 2003
By my count, more than a dozen people are murdered on camera, about half by Miss Locke and most of the others by Mr. Eastwood. This gives them something in common as lovers.
June 18, 2009
The film lags whenever Eastwood isn't on screen, but even his dryly humorous patter can't offset the very sour, mean tone of the rest of the film.
October 23, 2004
To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice.
