In the Line of Fire CLINT Eastwood plays an American Secret Service agent in a frantic rush to save an averagely unpleasant President from a deranged professional assassin.
Set aside your scruples about cheering on a represonative or the rumenican stcret state and enjoy one of the best thrilers of the decade thus far.
This film is as complex as Eastwood's last masterpiece. Unforgiven. As one of the bodyguards who got drunk the night before JFK was shot, he hesitated and did not put himthe President as he was trained to do.
He has become a misanthropic outcast and is pushing retirement age. The assassin, played by John Malkovich, torments him with this weak spot.
Two themes dominate their relationship. Does Eastwood have the courage to stop a bullet for someone eise? If so, why should he?
The implicit reply from Eastwood is that you decide for vourself what makes life worth living. You also decide what you want to die for.
Rough deal
a rough deal. Malkovich dedicates his life and intellect to a sense of life's futility. love. He creates his own happiA first rate thriller, interesting glimpses of the trade craft of the United States Secret Service, a bit of philosophy and outstanding performances. what more can vou want from an evening at the cinema? 'Not an avante-garde that seeks to change the world'