Overview:
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.| Status: | Released (1990-12-07) |
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| BoxOffice: | $21,633,874 |
| Screen: | Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel |
| Productions: | Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 190: Clint Eastwood - Nick Pulovski
- 6952: Charlie Sheen - David Ackerman
- 27888: Raúl Juliá - Strom
- 27396: Sonia Braga - Liesl
- 4139: Tom Skerritt - Eugene Ackerman
- 6684: Lara Flynn Boyle - Sarah
- 3982: Xander Berkeley - Blackwell
Crews
- 11641: Scott Spiegel - Screenplay - Writing
- 52359: Steven Siebert - Producer - Production
- 384: Joel Cox - Editor - Editing
- 52358: Boaz Yakin - Screenplay - Writing
- 356: Jack N. Green - Director of Photography - Camera
- 190: Clint Eastwood - Director - Directing
- 3718: David Valdes - Producer - Production
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Reviews
Wuchak
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***Eastwood’s forgettable detective flick with Charlie Sheen*** This is another Clint Eastwood cop thriller. What immediately comes to mind? The five Dirty Harry films, right? Or “The Gauntlet” (1977)? All great or near-great Eastwood cop pictures. So you'd expect the same from 1 ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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Decent action flick, rubbish buddy cop movie. The reason for the latter is that Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen just don't really work as a pairing, when I think of great buddy cop duos - see the preceding <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/lethal-weapon/" rel="nofollow">L ....
Continue reading ->GenerationofSwine
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There is a movie with James Woods that I keep mistaking for this one. Anyway, it falls under the "What did you expect?" category of flick. It's not good... it's not bad either. No one expected it to be a box office bomb, no one expected it to be the next big thing either. T ....
Continue reading ->JPV852
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Pretty paint-by-numbers buddy-cop movie where Eastwood pretty much plays a Harry Callahan and Charlie Sheen completely miscast as the titular rookie character. Raul Julia, a Puetro Rican playing a German, seemed to be having a good time at least. The action and stuntwork was at least ....
Continue reading ->kevin2019
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"The Rookie" is a well paced action film throughout and it is enormously entertaining. It finds Clint Eastwood eagerly returning to the overly familiar territory of "Dirty Harry" (1971) yet again in literally explosive and sensational fashion. The story never really manages to get ou ....
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