Otherwise, "Sudden Impact" wasn't the most well-received follow-up. The film bears an unremarkable 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics seemingly taken aback by the sheer brutality of the thing.

Clint Eastwood once appeared in a forgotten music video in character as Harry Callahan, his character from the Dirty Harry ...

Yet, Eastwood leans on the character’s age issue compellingly. The later Dirty Harry entries like Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool dismissed any limitations that Eastwood would have with age.