The Dead Pool (Deluxe Edition)
by Buddy Van Horn
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Actor: Clint Eastwood, Evan Kim, James Carrey, Liam Neeson, Patricia ClarksonDirector: Buddy Van Horn
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 81840
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- The final film in the collection is The Dead Pool, which was originally released in 1988. The Dead Pool finds Inspector Callahan (Eastwood) investigating an unusual betting game played by a film director and his crew, which has the players create a list of 10 celebrities they think will die. The winner is the one with the highest number of dead celebrities. Soon, however, people on the list begin
Movie Reviews of The Dead Pool (Deluxe Edition)
Movie Review: Age is reviving these old films
Summary: 5 Stars
Who cannot like Dirty Harry, Inspector Harry Callaghan? He represented a type of cop that was supposed to be outdated at the time (1988) but has come back into honor over the last ten years when leniency and benevolence towards criminals has gone down because it turned out quite obvious that this kind of attitude was encouraging crime. Ruthlessness is probably not the answer but a firm and just application of the law, nothing but the law, but all the law without any exception is definitely the right answer. Some redundant workers in a factory that is to close decided to blackmail everyone with blowing up the factory if they did not get their conditions. Where do you think they got that kind of idea? Taking everyone hostages for them to get a privileged treatment in a difficult situation. The law says all workers who are made redundant are supposed to benefit from a guaranteed social program and all workers in that situation are supposed to get the same treatment. Leniency against hostage takers, ransom runners, pirates of any type including Internet pirates is worse than the crime itself. The criminals are supposed to be treated with fairness but firmness too. That's what Harry Callaghan represents. At the time Clint Eastwood's films on the subject were considered pretty conservative if not reactionary. But times have changed and now he seems to be more logical in these times of global terrorism. At the time Clint Eastwood expressed the voice of and channeled into the theaters an audience that wanted to protest in their heads against that trendy leniency with crime. Today he appeals to the audience that has understood that global terrorism starts with accepting petty crimes and small offenses as normal in a way, as tolerable, as excusable even, and with considering that people under eighteen are not supposed to be treated as adult when they commit premeditated adult crimes. The film is full of action but also full of creative means because criminals are great inventors and Clint Eastwood gives back to Caesar what is Caesar's, hence their inventiveness back to these creative criminals. He was also one of the first to start understanding that serial killers are sociopathic people and that the best way to get them is to understand their mental functioning, hence to profile them. They were just starting speaking of profiling in the FBI and that was heavily discussed and confronted to a lot of disagreement and dissent. Today it has become standard and global too. Then the film is also teaching a good lesson to the media people by dragging one female reporter into the life of an inspector who is at the top of the list of a serial killer. She learns the hard way that one must not mess with police work. If there is any abuse they know about and witness they must not try to stop the police action that seems abusive to them but just do their job and report it to the public and let courts decide. Reporters do not always understand that their jumping into a crime scene may completely spoil the scene and mess up the work of the investigators. That's why this film is interesting, and at the same time charmingly appealing.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Summary of The Dead Pool (Deluxe Edition)
The final film in the collection is The Dead Pool, which was originally released in 1988. The Dead Pool finds Inspector Callahan (Eastwood) investigating an unusual betting game played by a film director and his crew, which has the players create a list of 10 celebrities they think will die. The winner is the one with the highest number of dead celebrities. Soon, however, people on the list begin to die under mysterious circumstances. Callahan is assigned to the case and discovers his name has made the list. Special Features ? New Commentary by producer David Valdes and Cinematographer Jack N. Green, who discuss the challenging and rewarding experience making this the final chapter in the Dirty Harry series. ? New Featurette The Craft of Dirty Harry -- A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series. ? Trailer GallerySimilar DVD Movies
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