a5c7b9f00b Film director Peter Swan plays a game with his crew know as "The Dead Pool", wherein they each choose a set of 10 celebrities who they think will die before the game ends. The winner is the one with most number of dead celebrities. The problems start when the people on Swan's list start to die in mysterious circumstances. Harry is assigned to the case and discovers he is one of the names on Swan's list! A rock singer, Johnny Squares, who is also a drug addict is found dead of an overdose but there are signs that it was not accidental, so Harry is assigned to investigate. Initially Harry locks horns with Peter Swan, the man who directs the singer's videos. He also crosses paths with a television reporter, Samantha Walker and after being threatened with a law suit, the two of them form a rapport. Harry then discovers that Swan and several other people are playing a game called the dead pool, wherein they make a list of individuals, who are either in bad health or high risk professions, and turns out that Squares was on Swan's list and so are some other people who were murdered, and Harry's also on the list. And someone is following him. "The Dead Pool" was the fifth (and apparently final) "Dirty Harry" film, a series that began prosperously in 1971 and, by now, was rather out of steam. To be fair, it starts out entertainingly enough the opening sequence may be far-fetched but it is skillfully executed, and the following scenes provide the sort of familiar dry humor that will please most of Clint Eastwood's fans. ("Opinions are like elbows. Everyone's got one." Except he doesn't actually say "elbows.")<br/><br/>A half-hour into the picture, I was actually surprised to find that "The Dead Pool" was very entertaining and, above all else, daring. In this time period, we receive a satire of politics, the media's affiliation with the police and some particularly un-PC remarks (Such as one remark about a Chinese-American partner and the motivation behind his promotion.) The movie peaks when it delivers funny humor there's a sequence with Jim Carrey (before he was famous) playing a rock star named Johnny Squares, and the first time we are introduced to his character is during a scene in which he's filming a music video and lip synching to Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle." This goes on for roughly two minutes.<br/><br/>I suppose back in 1988 this was due to the fact that the GN'R song was a hit a top ten single, actually and as such was an efficient way to entice the younger crowds to go see the film.<br/><br/>Nowadays, it's a funny scene because we focus on Carrey and realize just how absurd his dancing and Axl Rose impersonations are perhaps something audiences didn't really get back in '88.<br/><br/>Anyway, Carrey's rock star caricature Johnny is a heroin addict who is murdered in his trailer after shooting up again. Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is called to the scene of the crime with his new partner, and they soon realize that there is a strange "dead pool" list floating around San Francisco begun by an Irish director (Liam Neeson) who was working with Johnny.<br/><br/>The list works like this: You name a handful of celebrities who you think may die in the coming months, and whoever's list is the most accurate at the end of this time period wins. The irony of all this is that Johnny Squares' name is on the director's list which implicates him in the crime. Furthermore, Harry himself is included on the dead pool list, which means he could be the next target.<br/><br/>The movie has two plots going on at once one involves the dead pool list (coupled with the mandatory romantic subplot) and the other is about an incarcerated gangster who wants to seek vengeance on the man who locked him up. That man, of course, is Harry.<br/><br/>As its runtime progresses "The Dead Pool" becomes stupider and stupider, until Harry is diving through fire to save suicide victims in slow-motion, impaling baddies with spear guns and so on and so forth. Buddy Van Horn, who's worked with Eastwood many times and was, ironically, a stunt worker on his latest masterpiece, "Million Dollar Baby", directed the movie. And he gets it half right, and then suddenly turns into a hack. It's like he got tired of the effort and midway through filming, handed over the director's chair to an idiot whose training consists of Action Thriller Clichés 101.<br/><br/>Then despite the whole wandering nature of the movie, we've got Guns N' Roses. Where to begin? As aforementioned, Jim Carrey imitates band frontman Axl Rose for a couple minutes. It's funny, but out of place in a "Dirty Harry" film. But it doesn't stop there. Their song plays at least twice in the movie, for a total of over seven minutes. The killer even stops a massacre at one point to slip a cassette tape into his deck and begin playing "Welcome to the Jungle," and then resumes slicing his victim. It's a bit odd, to say the least. On top of that, the band's musicians Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin', Duff McKagen and Steven Adler perform cameos.<br/><br/>It's a really odd movie, that kind of hybrid of genres and cross-referential pop culture thriller that isn't really sure what it wants to be. This is worth a look, to be sure, if only for the fact that it's so unusual especially considering the fact that it's a "Dirty Harry" sequel. That it was the final in the franchise seems understandable. This is the fifth and by far the last Dirty Harry movie. This is a bad movie and it doesn't feature the formula or style that made Dirty Harry popular. The only good part of this movie is the little toy car sequence.<br/><br/>*out of****stars Unless you're a Clint fan there's little other reason to sit through this one. 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