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3.5
The tonal clash of Courages artsy/creepy horror comedy and Scooby Doos kooky 60s mystery caper isnt nearly as jarring as youd expect.
615 Film
3.0
Director Wolfgang Petersen working from Mark Protosevichs screenplay effectively transforms the film into a mindlessly diverting piece of summer enter ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
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 ..
Empire
3.0
The movie has a clear, simple thriller logic thats far more satisfying than the static variations on a massacre construction of Eastwoods Dirty Harry ..
New Yorker
0.0
Aside from getting a little too nasty to guarantee audience attention during flat spots, this is a quality political thriller with a few choice person ..
Herald Sun
4.5
John Malkovich plays one of the screens most memorable and often underrated villains.
3.0
Generously exciting, In the Line of Fire is mercifully free of that artificial energy that makes so many new movies look as if they were created with ..
News Week
4.5
Eerie assassin and protector are perfectly balanced in this classy entertainment.
Film 4
4.5
Every part of this film trades so heavily on Eastwoods presence that it is impossible to imagine it with anyone else in the starring role.
La Times
3.0
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Shattered) from a script by Jeff Maguire, In the Line of Fire doesnt come close.
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.0
Preposterous but still thoroughly involving, this tense, kinetic, ingenious thriller is the thinking fans action movie.
People
0.0
Frank proves that, although he may be old and politically incorrect, hes Cool Hand Luke under fire.
Theepoch Times
0.0
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, In the Line of Fire builds a palpable tension between the Eastwood and Malkovich characters.
Tulsa World
3.5
Despite the presence of all these action flick cliches, In the Line of Fire works. Sure, its no more than a formula movie, but its an effective formul ..
Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.0
How fitting that in this summer of dinosaurs, Clint Eastwood has again emerged as the most interesting thing on screen.
Articles Philly
3.0
The film reminds me a great deal of Fred Zinnemanns low key and brilliant Day of the Jackal: theres no sense of phony heat, as extra narrative devices ..
Articles Baltimore Sun
0.0
This is a picture which I would simply hate to have missed. It is a totally conventional film, but is none the worse for that. A good movie is a serie ..
OutWeek
0.0
Petersens film isnt concerned with the man Eastwoods ageing Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is determined to protect, simply about what protecting ..
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