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From: Caro.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
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Subject: Sudden Impact (and how!)
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 13:25:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 13:25:09 1983
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Sudden Impact is the latest Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood rootin' tootin'
shoot 'em up flick.  If you liked Dirty Harry, you'll LOVE Sudden
Impact!  This movie was a feast of violence and heavy-artillery street
fighting.  See Harry dodge machine gun bullets, malatov cocktails, and
vicious dogs!

Everyone knows that old saw about "the sequel ain't never gooder'n the
first movie."  Well, Sudden Impact is the exception that proves the
rule.  This movie has a story, by God!  The theme is a classic one:
revenge.  A young, sensitive \artiste/ goes on a methodical man-hunt for
the men (and woman!) that gang raped her and her 16-year-old sister
under the boardwalk of a San Paulo (really Santa Cruz) carnival.  Her
sister, as a result of the experience, ends up doing a good impression
of a eggplant up in Napa ("vegetable, that is ... get it? ... pay
attention, son.  How y'all gonna learn to be funny like me less'n ya pay
attention!?")

The young artist, played by
<God-I-wish-I-could-remember-that-actor's(generic)-name>, is as cool as
ice.  Her MO is to walk up to the victim, fire her .38 once into the
victim's crotch, and again into the victim's forehead, in cold blood.
But mere words can't do justice to the fantastic visual effect of the
victim getting a "38 caliber vasectomy"[from the movie].

But this is not a gorey film.  This is not a Chainsaw Massacre.  All of
the violent scenes are done quite tastefully.  And there is plenty of
comedy relief in between the acts of violence (look especially for
"Meat-Head" the wonder bull-dog.)  None of the violence is gratuitous;
even the Mob "hit" with machine guns and automatic weapons is well
plotted.  Folks, there's not a klinker in this entire movie.

Harry has two classic lines in the movie that the sharp film-fanatic
should watch out for.  One is, "Go ahead.  MAKE my DAY!" and the other
is "Swell."  Classic, classic!

But the real star of the show, of course, is the air-cooled AutoMag 44.
We're talking armor piercing bullets!  We're talking 300 grain
cartridges!  We're talking about a chrome plated beauty that saves the
day in the final scene (which, paradoxically, happens at night.)  We're
talking about artillery that Admiral Nelson himself would have been
proud of.

Violence fans, this movie is a must!  The whole theatre cheered every
time Harry pulled out his gun.  What a man!  What an American!

On the Commodore's scale of Merit (six bells being all's well), this
movie gets a six!

Commodore Perry