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Rookie, the

Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: VHS Tape
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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This somewhat desperate-looking project pairs the aging Clint Eastwood (he also directed) with a younger actor (Charlie Sheen) who was hot at the time this film was made (1990). There's certainly nothing wrong with that strategy, but it would have helped if Eastwood had a decent story to wrap around his commercial strategy. The senior star plays a grizzled cop with a smooth-faced preppie (Sheen) as a new partner. Their odd-couple shtick is as predictable as one would expect, with each man approaching the same job with a wholly different set of convictions from the other. Inexplicably, Eastwood also hired Raul Julia and Sonia Braga to plays Germans, but then the scene most people remember in this movie is Braga's rape of Eastwood--indeed an unusual moment. --Tom Keogh

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars FORMULAIC BUT WATCHABLE COP THRILLER Nov 10 2003
By Shashank Tripathi
Format:DVD
Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen make strange co-cops, the chemistry was there but not quite. The Rookie is full of formula action cliches with plot holes so large you could drive a stolen SUV through them. The saving grace: a funny grizzled performance by Clint Eastwood. If you can digest the first 15 minutes and not think too hard about it, "The Rookie" is actually quite a watchable movie with some pretty nifty explosions, escapes and chases. You know, the works.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Oh, my word. Jun 30 2002
By Mike Galvin
Format:VHS Tape
This exquisitely disastrous outing teams bright-eyed Charlie Sheen with hardbitten Clint Eastwood in a buddy-buddy cop movie that will leave you rolling on the floor. No cliche of the genre is ignored, right down to Raul Julia's camp villian and his psychopatic sidekick in the shapely form of Sonia Braga. The plot - such as it is - is hardly relevant. Far more entertaining are the exchanges between our idealistic young turk and his careworn mentor. The only highpoint is an hilarious sexual advance by Braga on a bound and captured Eastwood in what may well be sufficient material for an entirely separate project called, say, 'Senior Citizens - Down and Dirty'. Atrocious, in every way, but so bad it achieves a mesmerizing, comic brilliance.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Oh, my word. Jun 30 2002
By Mike Galvin
Format:VHS Tape
This exquisitely disastrous outing teams bright-eyed Charlie Sheen with hardbitten Clint Eastwood in a buddy-buddy cop movie that will leave you rolling on the floor. No cliche of the genre is ignored, right down to Raul Julia's camp villian and his psychopatic sidekick in the shapely form of Sonia Braga. The plot - such as it is - is hardly relevant. Far more entertaining are the exchanges between our idealistic young turk and his careworn mentor. The only highpoint is an hilarious sexual advance by Braga on a bound and captured Eastwood in what may well be sufficient material for an entirely separate project called, say, 'Senior Citizens - Down and Dirty'. Atrocious, in every way, but so bad it achieves a mesmerizing, comic brilliance.
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