In the Line of Fire
An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them...
An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands ...
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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1993
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Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
128 min
Release date:
8 Jul 1993
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$40,000,000
Revenue:
$176,997,168
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 2 wins & 17 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Petersen directs his film in a straightforward, workmanlike fashion-few surprises here -- and, curiously, for most of the film is better at establishing a kind of amiability than a hard tension.
– Clifford Terry,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jul 2013
fresh:
Director Wolfgang Petersen moves the story along, but his real job is to simply stay out of the way of his two racehorse lead actors. And he does.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jul 2013
fresh:
Every part of this film trades so heavily on Eastwood's presence that it is impossible to imagine it with anyone else in the starring role.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jul 2013
fresh:
The movie has a clear, simple thriller logic that's far more satisfying than the static variations-on-a-massacre construction of Eastwood's Dirty Harry pictures and spaghetti Westerns.
– Terrence Rafferty,
New Yorker,
30 Jul 2013
fresh:
Despite the presence of all these action-flick cliches, In the Line of Fire works. Sure, it's no more than a formula movie, but it's an effective formula movie.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jul 2013