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In the Line of Fire
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
5 July 1961
8 December 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
14 December 1968, Bensheim, Germany
28 September 1959, USA
13 September 1948, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
20 June 1940, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
2 February 1949
12 November 1953, Alhambra, California, USA
30 August 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 September 1962, Los Angeles County, California, USA
26 October 1961, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
21 September 1929, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
12 June 1956, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
July 30, 2013
It just builds, relationship by relationship, detail by detail, clever stroke by clever stroke, taking you in and making you its own. It ought to wear a sign: Danger. Professionals At Work.
July 30, 2013
Preposterous but still thoroughly involving, this tense, kinetic, ingenious thriller is the thinking fan's action movie.
July 30, 2013
Eerie assassin and protector are perfectly balanced in this classy entertainment.
May 18, 2016
...a seriously superior thriller that remains, more than 20 years later, one of the best examples of the genre.
July 30, 2013
What separates In The Line Of Fire from the rest of the bog-standard good-guy/bad-guy set-up is the clear implication throughout that these two sworn enemies have more in common than they may think.
July 30, 2013
The movie has a clear, simple thriller logic that's far more satisfying than the static variations-on-a-massacre construction of Eastwood's Dirty Harry pictures and spaghetti Westerns.
August 13, 2014
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, In the Line of Fire builds a palpable tension between the Eastwood and Malkovich characters.
July 30, 2013
Petersen directs his film in a straightforward, workmanlike fashion-few surprises here -- and, curiously, for most of the film is better at establishing a kind of amiability than a hard tension.
July 30, 2013
Despite the presence of all these action-flick cliches, In the Line of Fire works. Sure, it's no more than a formula movie, but it's an effective formula movie.
July 30, 2013
Between them, director Petersen and screenwriter Jeff Maguire do a memorable job developing their characters in this story of personal and professional redemption.
July 30, 2013
Every part of this film trades so heavily on Eastwood's presence that it is impossible to imagine it with anyone else in the starring role.
July 30, 2013
Director Wolfgang Petersen moves the story along, but his real job is to simply stay out of the way of his two racehorse lead actors. And he does.
