Dead Heart

Starring:Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, Angie Milliken, Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie, Aaron Pedersen, John Jarratt, Anne Tenney, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Lafe Charlton, David Gulpilil, Billy McPherson, Stanley Mirindo, Berynn Schwerdt, Marshall Napier, Robert Faggetter, Wesley Patten
Director: Nick Parsons
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

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After the drudgery of Sudden Impact, the fourth and worst sequel to Dirty Harry, no one could have expected the fifth to have any signs of life. But The Dead Pool is fairly inspired, even playful--check out a "chase" scene between Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character and a remote-controlled toy car wielding a bomb--and it ended the long-running series on an unexpectedly positive note. This time, Callahan investigates a series of murders that appears to be on a "death list," while becoming romantically involved with a television reporter (Patricia Clarkson). Jim Carrey has a small but memorable part as a doped-up rock star, and Liam Neeson is on board, too. Directed by Eastwood surrogate Buddy Van Horn (Any Which Way You Can). --Tom Keogh

Description

An underground betting pool contains the names of people recently murdered. As "Dirty Harry" Callahan investigates, he discovers his name is on the list.

Customer Reviews:

Magnum Finale.......2006-12-08

Clint Eastwood has a little pop-culture fun in this somewhat cartoonish Dirty Harry outing. "The Dead Pool" (1988) is a slight improvement over the unpleasantness of "The Enforcer" and "Sudden Impact," but Inspector Harry Callahan no longer resembles the cinematic icon depicted in director Don Siegel's 1971 classic. Still, we get an inventive car chase, a few memorable Clint one-liners, and a stronger-than-average cast (Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson, Evan C. Kim, Jim Carrey). Running only 91 minutes, the film moves at a good clip until stumbling at the finish line. It's a ludicrous climax as Harry blows away his final psychopath with a hand-held harpoon gun. Though a commercial success, "The Dead Pool" lacked the box-office firepower of its predecessors and Eastwood wisely bid adieu to his most famous character.

Average Eastwood.......2006-07-13

This is an alright Dirty Harry flick. It is good for at least one viewing if you like Clint as Harry and it also has Liam Neeson, with a short cameo by Jim Carry as a druggie rockstar that is kind of amusing.

Last good Eastwood / Dirty Harry / Clint cop flick of his career (really 3.5 stars on a mormal 4 star scale).......2006-03-28

In Dirty Harry Five, Eastwood is hot
on the trail of movie buff who is pretend-
ing to be Director 'Peter Swan', a schlock-
horror flick producer, running out of ideas.
Evan C.Kim as Al Kwan is the best partner
Dirty Harry has ever had! Patricia Clarkson
is fine here too. Good effort!

Time to retire the role........2006-03-11

I am a big Eastwood fan and like the Dirty Harry series, however, the fifth one should not have been made. Clint is very old and he looks very tired of playing the role. He was in his prime during the 70s! But Dirty Harry in the 80s just doesn't match up right? The plot of the story is that he is investigating a bunch of murders and finds out that he is in this game called the Dead Pool and his name is on the list. Jim Carrey plays a Herion addict which that I can believe. But the over all movie was just plain boring. It seems like they have lighten up the character sine Eastwood is older.

HARRY AND THE MINI-CAR CHASE.......2005-11-02

This fifth and last entry in the Dirty Harry series has some crackling good scenes and an above-average plot, making it one of the best in the series. Clint Eastwood brings his square-jawed hero to life once again, this time paired with a Chinese-American, effectively underplayed by Evan Kim. He also finds himself somewhat enamored with a hot shot tv reporter (the talented Patricia Clarkson) in this case which involves a "dead pool", a list of celebrities who are predicted to die within the year. Harry is not too happy to find he's on the list, which was instigated by a movie crew as a game. Liam Neeson in one of his earlier roles plays the egocentric, deadly director who is one of the game's players and a suspect once several of the list's celebrities meet untimely deaths.
The movie is tightly wound, and you can even spot Jim Carrey in a small role as a drug-addled singer. The movie's highlight is an incredible chase scene between Harry and a deadly bomb-rigged electonically controlled car. It's a great parody of Harry's previous movies and it works well.
THE DEAD POOL let Harry go out in style and it's a fun ride.

Average customer rating:

"This Dirty Little Hole Is My Dreaming" ~ Getting Caught In The Middle
Touches the living heart
PROVOCATIVE DEPICTION OF THE CLASH OF TWO CULTURES
Powerful depiction of the collision of cultures
INTENSE DRAMA - Very Australian

Dead Heart
Starring: Bryan Brown , Ernie Dingo , Angie Milliken , Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie , and Aaron Pedersen
Director: Nick Parsons
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 1998-08-12

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Bryan Brown (FX, Breaker Morant) stars in this powerful and provocative thriller as a lawman caught in the middle of a racially charged murder mystery. Interactive Menus, Production Credits, Scene Access, Trailer, Filmographies

Customer Reviews:

"This Dirty Little Hole Is My Dreaming" ~ Getting Caught In The Middle.......2005-08-22

Ray (Bryan Brown), the resident white police officier in a remote region of the Australian Outback finds himself in over his head when a young male is murdered for descrating a local sacred site. Ray's attempts to locate the killer are hampered by the local aborginal community which views the death as required and justifiable by ancient tribal law. And so the confrontation begins.

Another great Australian film dealing with the vast differences between "white man's law" and the "old ways" of aboriginal society. Great performance by Bryan Brown and a nice cameo appearance by David Gulpilil.

Touches the living heart.......2003-01-23

Bryan Brown heads an excellent cast in this tightly-scripted story about a clash between Australian and Aboriginal law. Brown is a "whitefella" torn between his duty as a policeman, and his connection to the land and community. His counterpart (Ernie Dingo) is a "blackfella" with the opposite problem--his aesthetics lie with the mainstream culture, but his heart forces him to stand by aboriginal customs. Behind these two men are a host of other characters, each adding a rich note to the theme of ambivalence connected to life in an outback settlement.
Dingo's final plea for tolerance strikes right to the heart. A wonderful film.

One comment: DVD is not captioned and the complex story can be a bit hard to follow--there were places I had to back up and watch twice to understand the Aboriginal side of the story. It was worth it!

PROVOCATIVE DEPICTION OF THE CLASH OF TWO CULTURES.......2000-06-08

Made in the Australian outback, this movie depicts the clash of cultures between the Aborigine people and the 'white man.'

Wonderful acting by Bryan Brown as the police officer (Ray)trying to maintain peace and Ernie Dingo as an aborigine preacher who is sometimes caught between the aboriginal 'ways' and the 'white man's ways.'

A murder investigation brings about bitter tension between the two peoples as Ray tries desperately to bring about justice that is fair to both cultures which doesn't always work.

Very good movie. Each time you see it you see something that you didn't the time before.

Powerful depiction of the collision of cultures.......2000-03-05

A few years ago, when visiting the Australian outback, I met an elderly Aboriginal man who asked me, through an intereter, "Did your parents or grandparents tell you where you come from?" By this, he went on to explain that he meant was I descended from the kangaroo, lizard, emu etc? This is not a question that a European American would easily be able to answer. When I saw this excellent Australian film, it reminded me so much of that encouter, because it depicts the divergence of the Aboriginal and European cultures in Australia. The acting and cinematography are uniformally good.

In a way, "Dead Heart" is a sort of "Mississippi Burning", set in Australia, as it depicts racial intollerance. But in another way, this film is a far more profound examination of the complexity of culture collisions. It would be interesting to view this film together with other films that explore this fascinating theme in Australia...notably Nicolas Roeg's "Walkabout" and Werner Herzog's "Where the Green Ants Dream". Too bad that, to my knowledge, there are no Aboriginal directors creating films that depict their views of all this. Perhaps they are too busy living life than viewing it at a cinema.

INTENSE DRAMA - Very Australian.......1999-04-04

This movie involves the struggles of two cultures - Aboriginal and white man's - trying to live side by side in a very demanding and unredeeming environment.

It pits the Aboriginal laws against the white man's laws and shows how the officer (Brown) assigned to the post, struggles to integrate the two and keep peace between them, although not always succeeding. Bryan Brown is, as usual, very good.

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Customer Reviews:

Magnum Finale.......2006-12-08

Average Eastwood.......2006-07-13

Last good Eastwood / Dirty Harry / Clint cop flick of his career (really 3.5 stars on a mormal 4 star scale).......2006-03-28

Time to retire the role........2006-03-11

HARRY AND THE MINI-CAR CHASE.......2005-11-02

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