Sudden Impact

One of the relatively few things in action cinema that a true action cinema fan never tires of is Clint Eastwood wasting some bad guys with a 44 magnum. It really doesn't matter what the plot is, Eastwood during his prime is worth watching for watching's sake.

When you make movies like the Dirty Harry series, trying to get too highbrow and selfconscious just adds baggage and separates the audience from the story with theory, morality/guilt, and justification. This is not a terrible movie, although the 1983 soundtrack is horrific, but it tries to be too many things at once. We want a postmodern Western where the character defies unspoken convention to punish stupid/evil and protect good/sane.

Good Dirty Harry Action. Probably tied with Magnum Force within the series.