The Dead Pool (1988)

[Blast Hardcheese 636]

The fifth (and last) installment in the Dirty Hairy series, The Dead Pool is kind of a bananas film when you break it down. Clint Eastwood gives yet another fine performance (this dude's acting chops can't be denied, even when paired with a chimp, a Cadillac or an empty chair). The rest of this film is enjoyably silly.

 

*Jim Carey lip-syncing to Guns and Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle."

 

*A car chase involving a remote control car being driven by the killer who is also driving a car. Through the clogged streets of San Francisco, no less.

 

*Liam Neeson and his certain set of skills.

 

*Rich people/suspects betting on when people will die, and then are themselves killed.

 

*Dirty Harry searching for a catchphrase.

 

This isn't so much a bad movie as a good-ish movie with bonkers elements in it.

[jarrycanada 2483]

Could of sworn we've talked about this movie before.

If I was Guns N' Roses I would of paid Jim Carey to do the full on music video, I could watch this scene for hours.

[WayneMiller 37]

I would love to see them do this movie. I remember enjoying this one, but there's so much I've forgotten... Not least this scene with Jim Carrey.

[Quasar Sniffer 4174]

I endorse them doing this movie because it just... feels wrong when watching it. As much as I love Clint Eastwood and the Dirty Harry franchise, 'The Dead Pool' is just a so-so 1980s cop movie, very much of its time, which is totally not what Dirty Harry should be. It's almost as perplexing as watching Indiana Jones tumble around in a CGI refrigerator to avoid getting nuked in 'Crystal Skull.' It's just a very... 2000s type movie in which the character seems very out of place. And just like Ford in that film, Clint is great in The Dead Pool, but pairing him with a lip-syncing Jim Carrey and that remote control car chase, it is just uncomfortable.