During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.
This first sequel to Dirty Harry was written by a couple of strong voices, writer-directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and John Milius (Farewell to the King). But that doesn't mean the film is particularly good. After Don Siegel's ferociously dark style in the first movie, Ted Post's blocky, television-ish direction in Magnum Force is a huge letdown. The story doesn't win any prizes, either. Eastwood's San Francisco detective Harry Callahan (apparently having retrieved his badge after throwing it away at the end of Dirty Harry) takes on a vigilante squad within the city's police force. David Soul is pretty convincing as the major spokesman for these right-wing avengers. Eastwood, on the other hand, had already turned Callahan from fascinating outsider in Siegel's film to purveyor of tough-guy shtick in this one. --Tom Keogh
The world is devastated by a nuclear holocaust, causing the Earth to tilt on its axis and bringing vast meteorological chaos. As the weather stabilizes, mutated insects start to emerge, preying on the survivors. The surviving crew at a U.S. Air Force bomb shelter in the Mojave Desert picks up radio signals coming from Albany. The commander, Major Eugene Denton (George Peppard, The A-Team), unveils two armored vehicles he has constructed and announces a plan to cross Damnation Alley, the hundred-mile-wide strip between areas of radiation hazard, to join the survivors. They set off, taking on two civilians, a novice singer they find in the ruins of Las Vegas and a wild teenager (Jackie Earle Haley,Watchmen), along the way. The journey is also beset by giant mutated cockroaches, storms and crazed survivalists, making for some hair-raising escapes in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Extras: High Definition Transfer Audio Commentary with Film Expert Paul Talbot Audio commentary with Producer, Paul Maslansky Survival Run: A look at the challenges of adapting the celebrated novel with Co-creenwriter, Alan Sharp Road To Hell:Producer, Jerome Zeitman details the process of making the film and the difficulties it encountered along the way Landmaster Tales: a detailed examination of the now-famous Landmaster Vehicle from the film with Stunt Coordinator and Car Designer Dean Jeffries Original Theatrical Trailer
Johnson High School will never forget the day when ex-student Jason Copeland (Rick Schroder) decided to inflict a devastating revenge on the system that had rejected him. Armed and dangerous he marched into the school and started to fire indiscriminately at both students and staff then took dozens of terrified students hostage barricaded himself into a classroom and began a bloody reign of terror. But from this murderous mayhem an unlikely hero emerged: Deputy Skip Fine (Henry Winkler). Ignoring the mockery of both his colleagues and the FBI Fine took on the role of go-between- knowing that only his courage and negotiating skills could prevent even more bloodshed.
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