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The Rookie

1990

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Sônia Braga, Raul Julia ...

5.4

7,077

Action 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It's all meant in good fun, but it isn't. It's tired."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[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)"	NEU
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"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."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"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."	NEU
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"[A] depressingly familiar mismatched cop adventure"	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Overlong, sadistic and stale even by the conventions of the buddy pic genre"	NEG

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