Doesn't rank with Eastwood's best work as actor/director, but it's nevertheless solidly enjoyable.
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06/24/06
Absolute Power (1997)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:18
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this slick political thriller, an emotionally disconnected, aesthetically refined master thief is out for one final score before retiring to his treasure-lined hideaway. But during a robbery at... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn
Director: Clint Eastwood
Reviews for Absolute Power
Top CriticNot one of Clint's best, but still better-than-average entertainment.
08/22/08
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10/18/08
Top CriticEastwood films with his usual effortless pace, generating suspense practically out of thin air.
05/29/09
The plot and its resolution requires simply too much disbelief to be suspended by the audience...
08/29/03
A fairly routine thriller that gets high marks as a result of tight pacing and top-notch acting.
01/01/00
Good actors elevate this disappointing and lame effort by a respected filmmaker.
04/09/05
The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time's up.
08/22/08
Top CriticFor all the suspense the film does generate, the fairly flat climax is a disappointing payoff.
09/17/05
Not many thrillers slow down to notice relationships, but this one does.
01/01/00
Top CriticClint Eastwood...produced, directed and stars in this generally lunatic, occasionally pathetic and more often comically inept endeavor.
01/01/00
Lacks the consistency, depth and suspense that would put it in a league with Eastwood's best work.
01/01/00
Contrived and dawdling.
07/23/07
Ultimately, this is a thriller in vain search of credible thrills.
04/12/02
Sadly, any lofty artistic aspirations are quickly undone by the sheer ill-advised audacity of the story.
01/01/00
A pretty decent suspense movie, until its last half hour or so, which ends on a flaccid note and doesn't generate the needed resolution for the solid build-up that came before.
12/06/05
This is just a better makeup job on the same misogynist theme: live woman = nothing; dead woman = power.
01/01/00
A first-rate thriller about arrogance at the top, a showdown between two kinds of Americans: the evil, omnipotent bureaucrat and the enterprising, mind-his- own-business loner.
06/18/02
It's refreshing to think that good movies can still be made with only actors, a tight script, and some nice locations.
01/01/00
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