The Rookie

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Original title: The Rookie
Year: 1990
Running time: 121 min.
Country: United States
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Boaz Yakin, Scott Spiegel
Music: Lennie Niehaus
Cinematography: Jack N. Green
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Sônia Braga, Raul Julia, Tom Skerritt, Tony Plana, Pepe Serna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Donna Mitchell, Marco Rodríguez, Xander Berkeley, David Sherrill, Hal Williams, Lloyd Nelson, Mara Corday, Matt McKenzie, Joel Polis, Robert Dubac, Anthony Charnota, Jordan Lund, Paul Ben-Victor, Jeanne Mori, Paul Butler, Roberta Vasquez, Robert Harvey, Marylou Kenworthy, George Orrison, Craig HoskingSee 15 More
Producer: Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions, Kazanjian/Siebert Productions, Lighthouse Entertainment
Genre: Action | Cop Movies. Buddy Film
Synopsis: David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen) is a recently promoted plain-clothes detective who's lugging around a lot of emotional baggage. He's estranged from his wealthy father (Tom Skerritt) because of his career choice and he's having troubles with his live-in girl friend. David's most upsetting trauma, however, is a result of the accidental death of his brother, an accident for which David was responsible. David has chosen to work in the auto theft division, believing it offers a chance for quick promotion, and ends up as a partner to Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood), a former auto race driver who is now a grizzled, mean-spirited veteran cop. The two couldn't be more dissimilar. For their first assignment, David and Nick must team to break up a massive auto theft operation run by Strom (Raul Julia) and his partner Liesel (Sonia Braga).

Critics' reviews

"It's all meant in good fun, but it isn't. It's tired."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"[It] plays like an anthology of stuff that has worked before in action pictures (...) It's all there on the screen, but lifeless (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Eastwood runs his patented American macho numbers, plays the same limited repertoire of squints, but he's gotten way too long in the tooth to pull them off and the thrill is long gone."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"The plot makes almost no sense, and Eastwood directs in his usual toneless fashion. But in this case, the fact that you can’t always tell the intentional comedy from the unintentional isn’t necessarily a drawback."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"[A] depressingly familiar mismatched cop adventure"

Gene Siskel: Chicago Reader
"Overlong, sadistic and stale even by the conventions of the buddy pic genre"

Variety Staff: Variety

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