On TV today, Clint Eastwood’s relentless political thriller with an extraordinary cast and a high-stakes mystery
We have Clint Eastwood largely in two bags: the imposing star of the Western, whose character Dirty Harry has been transformed in detail into an urban key, and the classicist and Fordian dramatic filmmaker.
However, the most fascinating period of his career was when he became in the nineties Star (and even director) of some of the most powerful and groundbreaking political thrillers. With him being a preview of the sexagenarian action hero phenomenon we now see more commonly.
Dark eye on power
‘Absolute Power’ was one of his outstanding works in this genre of adult cinema, starring and directing exceptional actors like Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney and Scott Glenn. A perfect recreation of the nineties that is about to become possible Watch it tonight at 10 PM on television via Neox.,
Eastwood plays a white-collar thief who robs the most luxurious homes of the richest of the rich. During one of their coups, some unexpected visitors enter.
ends without eating or drinking Witness the brutal assassination of the President of the United States, which included his government team and the Secret Service. The criminal must figure out how to carry out his charge against the supreme ruler of the country.
Eastwood has used master screenwriters such as William Goldman to give the successful nineties novel on which it is based a sleeker and more commercial appeal. A bit of “you don’t need saddlebags for this trip”, as here the director and star look to follow the runaway success of films like ‘In the Line of Fire’. A mix of intrigue and tension in a fairly simple and digestible political scenario. Even for the viewer who has no interest in politics.
Drag the agenda of great actors to fill out the cast Gives too much importance to all accessories, and gives a film a lot of strength that Eastwood as an actor doesn’t have to shoulder. Though he himself manages to be great in the hero class, finding the right energy for this raw work about the impossibility of trusting public rulers.
Not that ‘Absolute Power’ is a podium film in Eastwood’s directing career or even among the political thrillers of the nineties. but he was a great job More than enjoyable, and the kind of movie that’s missing from current billboard, or even streaming, platform premieres.
