Synopsis
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
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Cast
- Clint EastwoodInsp. Harry Callahan
- Tyne DalyInsp. Kate Moore
- Harry GuardinoLt. Al Bressler
- Bradford DillmanCaptain McKay
- John MitchumDiGiorgio
- DeVeren BookwalterBobby Maxwell
- John CrawfordThe Mayor
- Samantha DoaneWanda
- Robert F. HoyBuchinski
- Jocelyn JonesMiki
Recommendations
- 80
Film Threat
This is a good move because while I and many others believe in civil liberties, no one likes a cop who goes by the book. Besides, Harry seems to have realized that if you kill the criminals then you never have to bother with prosecuting them. It’s only when people live that Harry gets hassled. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The Enforcer is the best of the Dirty Harry movies at striking a balance between the action and the humor. Sometimes in the previous films we felt uneasy laughing in between the bloodshed, but this time the movie's more thoughtfully constructed and paced. - 60
Empire
Same old sequel squanderings. - 50
The New York Times
The action is reasonably fast and competently photographed. The picture doesn't exactly drag. But it is maggoty with non‐ideas. - 50
Variety
The spitball script [from a story by Gail Morgan Hickman and S.W. Schurr] lurches along, stopping periodically for the blood-lettings and assorted running and jumping and chasing stuff. - 50
The New Yorker
Directed by James Fargo, this third in the series doesn't have the savvy to be as sadistic as its predecessors; it's just limp. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Improbable as are all the Dirty Harry films, The Enforcer is crammed with action and spilling over with violence. The photography is fine, but the gore is as repugnant as Daly's overacting.
