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In the Line of Fire

Castle Rock Entertainment

Apple / Rose

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

English

Clint Eastwood

John Malkovich

Rene Russo

Dylan McDermott

Gary Cole

Fred Thompson

John Mahoney

Gregory Alan Williams

Jim Curley

Sally Hughes

Clyde Kusatsu

Steve Hytner

Tobin Bell

Bob Schott

Juan A. Riojas

Elsa Raven

Arthur Senzy

Patrika Darbo

Mary Van Arsdel

Ryan Cutrona

Lawrence Lowe

Brian Libby

Eric Bruskotter

Patrick Caddell

John Heard

Alan Toy

Carl Ciarfalio

Walt MacPherson

Robert Peters

Tyde Kierney

Anthony Peck

Rick Hurst

Doris E. McMillon

Robert Sandoval

Joshua Malina

William G. Schilling

Michael Kirk

Richard G. Camphuis

Marlan Clarke

Robert Alan Beuth

Susan Lee Hoffman

Donna Hamilton

Bob Jimenez

Cylk Cozart

Michael Zurich

Rich DiDonato

Jeffrey Kurt Miller

Kirk Jordan

Lena Banks

Ian Paul Cassidy

Michael Graziano

Aaron Michael Lacey

Steve Railsback

William Shipman

John F. Kennedy

Wolfgang Petersen

David Valdes

Anne V. Coates

Jeff Apple

Gail Katz

John Bailey

Ennio Morricone

Sherri Bramlett

Peter Kohn

Christopher Assells

Dino DiMuro

Chris Hogan

James Lee McCoy

A. Charles Carnaggio

Laura Graham

Constance A. Kazmer

Violet Cazanjian

Willie D. Burton

Gregg Baxter

Gary A. Hecker

David Michael Katz

Jann K. Engel

Chris Fix

Randy Kelley

Lee Cleary

Carl Aldana

David C. Potter

Karen Baker Landers

Carol A. O'Connell

Danis Regal-O'Connell

Edward Aiona

Michael Sexton

Butch West

Bob Beher

Christine Anne Baur

Robert J. Rosenthal

Richard L. Hill

Rocky Gehr

John Frazier

Michael Adams

Bridget Cook

David V. Lester

Lilly Kilvert

Tamara Smith

Janet Hirshenson

Joel Chernoff

Jane Jenkins

Buddy Van Horn

John Warnke

Erica Edell Phillips

Kara Lindstrom

Barbara Lacy

Michael Hirshenson

Daniel Grant North

Amy Stofsky

Bruce McBroom

Marina Marit

Marie Boller

Robb Sullivan

Nancy Bernstein

Jeff Maguire

Loren Janes

Larry Holt

Kathina Szeto

Mauricio Gutierrez

Charles Saldaña III

Michael Grillo

Karen Penhale

Donald E. Thorin Jr.

Michael Stone

Mitchell Amundsen

Mike Moyer

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Troy Robinson

Andy Gill

Jack Gill

Werner Keppler

Jerome Chen

John Robotham

I wish it was paced better, but <em>'In the Line of Fire'</em> still makes for a good time.

Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich is a great line-up and both are entertaining in this, the latter is just terrific at playing a loopy bad guy. There's a fair few well known peeps behind them, including John Heard and Gary Cole - it's a fairly strong cast.

The story is an interesting one, though given that you'd expect the film to move along at a better pace but it kinda just walks through its 128 minute run time. It's not a drag or anything, but I definitely wasn't on the edge of my seat unfortunately. It's still a film I'd recommend, though.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Action, entertainment and verisimilitude together in a film that is better than many others, more regularly remembered.**

This is a conventional American-style action film, where everything revolves around the unassailable and sacrosanct figure of the President. There are loads of films like this, such as “Air Force One” or “Olympus Has Fallen”, which may help to explain why it ended up so forgotten, despite being nominated for three Oscars (Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay). It's not a new film, but it guarantees action and entertainment, and looks very appealing to televisions and home market. In this case, the script focuses on the threat of a madman who is willing to do anything to assassinate the American president, and on the attempts of a veteran Secret Service agent to discover and prevent him.

In a film where the plot does not reserve any surprises or innovation, predictability can be a problem. In fact, there's nothing here that we haven't seen before. However, everything is done very competently and the commitment of all those involved is quite evident. The whole story is fairly well written and, apart from a few minor flaws, comes across as solid and credible. Wolfgang Petersen's direction also makes a decisive contribution to the positive outcome of the final product.

The cast contains several well-known names, but, unsurprisingly, it is Clint Eastwood who secures the lead role. And once again, the veteran shows us all the charisma he has. He really manages to balance his usual tough guy image with a fragility that his age accentuates and justifies. John Malkovich also did a good job. It's not the best of his career, but it was honest, credible and done with great professionalism. Rene Russo is the female standout, but in a movie with so much testosterone, she has little to do other than appear tough enough to keep up with those men and be the love interest of one of them.

Technically, the film has several points of merit that deserve to be highlighted and analyzed. When I read a little about this film (I have this habit, to be able to understand certain details and clear up some doubts that arise when watching), I discovered that there was, on the part of the production, a concern with the details. To make things more credible, they even asked the Secret Service for advice. And whenever a film production takes into account the relevance of details to the verisimilitude of the film, we have a duty to commend such efforts. Cinematography is the dominant standard in films of the time, and the sets and costumes are also what was imagined. There are many well-executed action scenes, and some good special effects and visuals. Editing is also very good.

CinemaSerf

A veteran of the Kennedy assassination, US Secret Service agent “Horrigan” (Clint Eastwood) now finds himself in contact with the menacing “Leary” (John Malkovich) who has made it clear he has an axe to grind with the current incumbent of the Oval Office. Of course, “Horrigan” alerts his bosses but with a knife-edge election looming, nobody is interested in hunkering down and hoping the threat goes away. It doesn’t help that the would-be killer is an ex-CIA man who is a master of disguise and skilled in plotting and planning covert schemes, so the agent and his colleagues “Lilly” (Rene Russo) and “Al” (Dylan McDermott) - whom his nemesis will have no problem disposing of should they get in his way, have their work cut out for them. Much of this is fairly processional at the start, but once the cat and mouse game starts in earnest then both Eastwood and the on-form Malkovich really do bring to life a superior thriller peppered with quite a bit of humanity and even a sense of sympathy for both men. One who has been dumped by a system he swore to protect and another who was neglected by it when he failed. There’s plenty of action, and in the end I wasn’t sure what I wanted to occur. It’s a bit more thoughtful than I had expected, and well worth a gander.

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