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Studio:Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Director:Wolfgang Petersen

Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, John Heard, Dylan McDermott, Rene Russo

Running Time:128 minutes

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Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary ColeDirector: Wolfgang Petersen

Amazon.co.uk Review

This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and the brilliant, psychopathic assassin (John Malkovich) who's itching to get the President in his cross hairs. In the Line of Fire's back-story--Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedy's assassination (Eastwood is computer-generated into archival footage)--is more than a little hokey, but the plotting itself is smartly, even ingeniously, constructed. Petersen manages a vice-like grip on the tension and Eastwood even gets to deliver an ever-more-timely lecture on the diminished nature of the office of President. Eastwood's as gruff and as infuriating to the by-the-book Powers That Be as ever and Malkovich oozes delightful menace. Rene Russo capably co-stars as a colleague with whom Horrigan gets friendly. --David Kronke

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