Plot: (from imdb.com) Clint Eastwood plays a veteran
detective who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a
German crook (Raul Julia.)
Review: On the surface, The Rookie sort of looks like
a Dirty Harry movie. You’ve got Clint Eastwood as a cranky old cop with a big
gun who shoots first and asks questions later. Unfortunately, The Rookie lacks
something that those other movies had. There seems to be a clash of tones. Most
of the time this movie is a not very serious buddy cop movie with Charlie Sheen
as the titular rookie. Then something will happen that is dead serious and
completely take you out of the movie and wonder what am I actually watching.
The
villain played by Raul Julia is also somewhat underwhelming. He does a lot of
despicable things and should be a lot more threatening then he is but again,
just like the inconsistent tone he skirts that line of comical and dead
serious.
I can’t
say I particularly liked this movie. Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen just don’t
have that chemistry together that these types of movies need.
Score: 6/10
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