So there's this part right after the bank heist where Harry is complaining about having his trousers cut so the doctor can stitch up his wounds.
He doesn't want his clothes destroyed because he claims they're expensive.
But you were already shot; The clothes already have a hole in them and they're covered in blood.
For all intensive purposes they're pretty much ruined, so what do you give a damn if he cuts them up now.
I don't think you're going to be wearing them anymore.
Anyways that's my one little gripe with the movie.
Otherwise I kind of love Dirty Harry.
Clint Eastwood's performance is solid and intense. Everyone around him is supposed to have some sort of moral High ground, but are ultimately just is jaded and broken as he is. The entire system is corrupted to such an extent that psychopaths can get away with kidnapping and murder, because he knows how to exploit the Deeds of a corrupt cop.
And honestly if this movie wanted to it could easily have dive into the internal Corruption of the police or how the system is broken from certain angles. It could have tackled both criminal manipulation of the system and police brutality at the same time, trying to walk a tightrope between the two and somehow maintain order in a nation that rewards manipulation and loopholes.
But it doesn't want to do any of that.
It just wants to give you a solid story of a very angry downtrodden more or less in the 'correct' man taking down a sociopath.
And in a lot of ways it's the direct premise of the film that ultimately saves it.
For this movie tried in any way shape or form to have any sort of commentary or external information beyond just bad cop trying to do good things, I don't think it would succeed too well.
There's just too many issues that you could pull apart from this movie and you can talk about all sorts of internal inconsistencies involving the law, due diligence or even just what roles the police detective (and or inspector) have within the service.
But really it's just as tough man going through various police procedures and handling them in the most inappropriate but direct fashion. A lot of the times it's Harry running around and looking miserable.
About 1/6 of the whole movie is just Clint Eastwood running from one Payphone to the next like a rat in a cage looking for cheese.
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