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
In the Line of Fire
An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them…
1993 · 2h 8m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Wolfgang Petersen
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In the Line of Fire
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Wolfgang Petersen Director
- Clint Eastwood as Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan
- Rene Russo as Secret Service Agent Lilly Raines
- John Malkovich as Mitch Leary
- Dylan McDermott as Secret Service Agent Al D'Andrea
- Gary Cole as Secret Service Presidential Detail Agent-In-Charge Bill Watts
- Fred Thompson as White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent
- John Mahoney Cast
- Gregory Alan Williams Cast
- Jim Curley Cast
- Sally Hughes Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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