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Overall Rank: 2546

Average Rating: 2.8/4

# of Ratings: 91

Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/1973

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 06/03/2008

Language: English

Genre: Action, Crime

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Ted Post

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich

Plot: A wayward cop is enforcing vigilante justice by assassinating several criminals who manage to escape punishment by slipping through legal loopholes and "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the case.

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 05/18/2021

A "Dirty Harry" sequel with Callahan racing to stop rouge vigilante police officers should be a lot more exciting than this. While its attempt to swing the pendulum the other way, with Harry resisting the idea of taking the law into one's own hands, is an intriguing push back from the first film, it is never fully realized by the sagging plot that gets pulled down by an overcrowded bin of underutilized characters.

Unknown - wrote on 12/21/2011

A great sequel. I liked it just as much as the first.

Naveen - wrote on 12/23/2010

Better than Dirty Harry. I didn't know what to expect after seeing Dirty Harry and frankly being a little underwhelmed. I was obviously blown away. The pacing was pitch perfect, Eastwood delivered a fantastic performance, and the storyline was engaging and unpredictable. Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot!

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Yojimbo - wrote on 02/12/2012

Harry Callahan returns to investigate the serial murders of unrelated criminals and discovers a conspiracy of vigilantes within his department. The sequel to Dirty Harry is where Callahan starts his transformation from uncompromising outsider to macho stereotype, the opening titles consisting of an unwavering close up on his .357 phallus on a blood red background and the graphic and often gratuitous shoot outs are punctuated by his refusing anaesthetic and having every female within his vicinity falling into bed with him. It's a much more exploitative approach, the grit of the original replaced with irrelevant action scenes, nudity and gangland stereotypes (the pimp is straight out of a particularly unsubtle blaxploitation movie). There are also some inconsistencies in the plot; how can …

Ichabod Crane
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weak sequel.

Ichabod Crane - wrote on 05/04/2009

The weak sequel to the Great Dirty Harry. The film just is not done as well for multiple reasons. One is the story is not nearly as compelling thanks to lack of a good villain. This actually has multiple villains actually and they fail to even come close to the first one great villain. One problem is they are not played well another is they are going after bad people for the most part except for that Tolkien innocent is thrown in to get killed too. Also the way the villains look and act could almost cause laughter. The story is not intense because of the way the scenes are connected basically to slowly and lacking in any urgency. Clint Eastwood is still good but he does not have much to do except fight the bad guys in this one since the character's story was already really told in the …