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Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda  Dirty Harry: **** out of **** Magnum Force: *** 1/2 out of **** The Enforcer: *** 1/2 out of **** Sudden Impact: **** out of **** The Dead Pool: *** out of ****
One of the best film series ever! 
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I resent the sequels and feel they damn near dilute the magnificence of the initial film.
Dirty Harry is a masterpiece. Its politics may jar with mine, but I love it. It would easily make my top 15 of all-time. It is a serious, powerful and expertly constructed bit of Film Noir and deserves all its plaudits and more.
The sequels are so much less. Mere money-grabbing bits of mindless action films - though there is some value in the terrifying police execution squad storyline in
Magnum Force. However, it should have been a different character.
Magnum Force would have been brilliant if it was not a Dirty Harry film. At the end of the first film the badge goes into the water in disgust. Unquestioningly having Harry back in the force for a series of dumb cop flicks is insulting.
One of the greatest travesties in cinema is that
Dirty Harry has sequels for me.