The Dead Pool (Deluxe Edition) | 
| Actors: Marc Alaimo, Jim Carrey, Anthony Charnota, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Currie
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 6319
Format: Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD019745D
UPC: 012569818408
EAN: 0012569818408
ASIN: B0015XHQT4
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
A DERANGED KILLER IS ELIMINATING SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRITIES ONE BY ONE IN A GRIM GAME OF LIFE & DEATH, AND DETECTIVE HARRY CALLAHAN HAS FOUND OUT THAT HE IS ON THE LIST TOO!
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After the drudgery of Sudden Impact, the fourth and worst sequel to Dirty Harry, no one could have expected the fifth to have any signs of life. But The Dead Pool is fairly inspired, even playful--check out a "chase" scene between Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character and a remote-controlled toy car wielding a bomb--and it ended the long-running series on an unexpectedly positive note. This time, Callahan investigates a series of murders that appears to be on a "death list," while becoming romantically involved with a television reporter (Patricia Clarkson). Jim Carrey has a small but memorable part as a doped-up rock star, and Liam Neeson is on board, too. Directed by Eastwood surrogate Buddy Van Horn (Any Which Way You Can). --Tom Keogh
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 Last 'Dirty Harry' Movie, And A Good One February 5, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
This was the fifth and last "Dirty Harry" movie with Clint Eastwood playing the hero again, Inspector Harry Callahan, cleaning up the streets of San Francisco from all the scumbag criminals. I've always found "The Dead Pool" to be one of his best in this series.
It's entertaining with pretty taut suspense and always fun to go back and see a young Jim Carrey. It's always cool, too, to watch those little remote-control cars with bombs attached go speeding through the streets underneath automobiles. At an hour-and-a-half, there are no dry spots in this film, either.
The female lead, Patricia Clarkson, is not one of my favorites. Eastwood seems to like those skinny blonds. Evan Kim, playing "Harry's" new partner, "Al Quan," was a likable guy. Even Harry's slightly more low-key in this movie, his language more tame and he gets in a few comedic zingers as well. Carrey plays a totally-despicable drugged-out rock star but he doesn't last long in the film. Carry and Liam Neeson play low-life people and combine to put some sleaze into the story.
Despite the usual less-than-credible action scenes at the end (where the villains miss from point-blank range, etc.), this is still a very entertaining movie and one of my favorites among the "Dirty Harry" films. Clint went out in style with this film
 Swell December 16, 2008
Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, so you are in the mood for a "Dirty Harry" flick. which one to choose???? I'll save you the trouble, and unless you've already seen the other four "Harry" flicks, pick one of those instead. "The Dead Pool" is okay, but compared to what came before it in Clint Eastwood's iconic series, it's a huge letdown.
The basic storyline is that someone is targeting local San Fran celebrities, and using a B-movie director's Dead Pool list as targets. (For those who don't know what a Dead Pool is; it's when you take bets on which celebrities will pass away within a given time). Eastwood's detective somehow makes the list of celebrities who may not survive the year.
So this time around, Harry gets saddled with an Asian partner, and his love interest is a local journalist. Oh, and just to add to the mix, Harry has also been targeted by a local mafia boss. Sounds good right? Well for the most part it's not bad. I liked the idea of "The Dead Pool Killer", and the cast is fantastic, with Patricia Clarkson playing the journalist who catches Clint's eye, and Liam Neeson as a bad B-movie director. To top if off, if you've ever wanted to see Jim Carrey die in a painful manner, then "The Dead Pool" will deliver, as Carrey does his best to channel every over-the-top 1980's hair metal lead singer featured on Headbangers Ball.
But right into the middle of this mix, someone dropped one huge of a turd of a car chase that blows everything that came before and after in the film. How bad could it be you ask? Well, it's a car chase between Clint's Le Baron (or whatever unremarkable 80's sedan he was driving) and a remote control car. Yes, a toy. I know you have to suspend belief when watching a "Dirty Harry" flick, but this pushed the limit of credibility right out the window and you can almost hear the film come to a screeching halt. It's so genuinely awful, that it ruins what could have been a decent film.
So unless, you just want to see the Swan Song of Dirty Harry as you've watched the other films, or if you are morbidly curious to see Jim Carrey in a scene with Liam Neeson, then skip this lame entry in an otherwise great series.
Dead Pool DVD September 16, 2008
J. V. Ortiz (Sunland, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well organized DVD, with plenty of extras. Learned quite a bit behind the scenes. Effective box, captures the Dirty Harry feel. You can't go wrong unless you are going to Blue Ray.
The funniest of the Dirty Harry pictures.... August 25, 2008
Grigory's Girl (NYC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the funniest of the Dirty Harry films. It has some of the best one liners in the series, and it's pretty obvious that the film is played for laughs. It was the last Dirty Harry film (I doubt there will be another one. Clint isn't one to repeat himself), and it has no pretensions on trying to be anything else. If you like the serious (yet darkly humourous at times) tone of the early films, you're probably not going to like this one. Many have said that Clint wanted to make Bird (one of his best films and one of the greatest films ever made about jazz), and in return for Warner Brothers financing Bird, he did one more Dirty Harry picture. It's a good tradeoff.
The film is actually quite funny (hilarious in fact), with funny lines and pointed jibes at Hollywood, police work, the media, and just life in general. Clint gives a good performance, and the film has very good performances for this kind of thing. Liam Neeson is excellent as a cheesy horror director, Jim Carrey (billed as James Carrey) is funny as a drug addled "musician", Evan C. Kim is good as Harry's partner, and Patricia Clarkson is good as the reporter who is "interested" in Harry. The film has some great dialogue, and it has one of the most unique (and exciting) chase sequences ever filmed. It also shot Guns and Roses to stardom with the use of one of their signature songs, Welcom to the Jungle (Welcome to the Jungle is the "music video in a film" that Neeson and Carrey are shooting). You can even glimpse most of the members of the original Guns and Roses at a funeral scene, and during one of Neeson's "shoots". While the film was directed by Clint surrogate Buddy Van Horn (Van Horn is a stunt coordinator that has worked on many of Clint's movies), it feels like Eastwood directed it himself (Van Horn's directing credits are only Clint movies). It's a good film, funny, never boring, but more of a parody of a Dirty Harry film than an actual Dirty Harry film. The other films took the character seriously, but this one doesn't. Still, it's pretty damn good.
Dirty Harry's last, in a nice Deluxe Edition, details here March 19, 2008
Sanpete (in Utah)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Dead Pool is the fourth and final sequel to Dirty Harry. It was pretty well received, considering its place in the series. In this installment, there's a convoluted plot about a game in which bets are taken on the deaths of celebrities, including tough cop Harry Callahan himself, with young Liam Neeson playing a questionable film director who's playing the game. Issues of the celebrity-enslaved press are mixed with romance as Harry dates a reporter. As always, there's plenty of action, suspense, gun play, and, this time, a unique and hilarious car chase with a very small but dangerous car.
Whether those with the older DVD will want to upgrade is a matter of personal preference, but the special features look attractive to me:
-- new commentary by Dead Pool producer David Valdes and Dead Pool cinematographer Jack N. Green
-- new featurette "The Craft of Dirty Harry," including the cinematography, editing, music, and production design of the Dirty Harry films
-- trailer gallery
This and the other four movies are available on standard DVD both separately and in a 7-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition, which has additional goodies.
They're also on Blu-ray in a 5-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition. Only the Dirty Harry Special Edition is available separately on Blu-ray (here); the other four movies, including this one, are available on Blu-ray in the set.
Here are the links for the Amazon pages for the new separate standard DVD releases of the other four movies in the series:
Dirty Harry Special Edition (2 discs, "special" is apparently better than "deluxe")
Magnum Force Deluxe Edition
The Enforcer Deluxe Edition
Sudden Impact Deluxe Edition
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