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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 7770
Released: September 2, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.)
Description of The Rookie:
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
The Rookie Reviews:
Very good movie.... 
2009-11-29 - Well, it seem's that some here didn't like it..I thought I had seen this movie because of the title..but indeed, I had not. It got my attention at once...and I watched it all the way thru. The only time I left the movie was durning the commericals. It kinda reminds you of a Dirty Harry movie..so I guess that is why I liked it so much. Charlie Sheen did a pretty good job, but maybe someone else would have been better suited to play that part. I think becasue I have only seen him in a comic roll,may be the reason I was not that keen about him playing that part. All in all, I still liked it very much and I am glad I had a chance to see the film.<>Lon<>
Not typical Eastwood
2009-11-05 - The movie is good, but not up to the usual standards of a Clint Eastwood film.
The Rookie 
2009-09-14 - I really enjoy having and watching classic movies like this one. The younger generation doesn't even remember it. It is a keeper.
Eastwood on automatic pilot but... 
2008-09-27 - Clint Eastwood on automatic pilot is a lot better than some peoples best films, so make no mistake this may be the worst film ever that he directed himself but its still pretty good. In fact for me it would have been 3.5 stars.
Its really a Dirty Harry film under another name, and with a decent cast including the always watchable Charlie Sheen its an easy way to pass an hour and a half. There are a couple of laugh out loud moments, especially the seat belt gag.
Of course the reason to watch the film is the man himself. Aged 61 when this was made he was still in top shape and is effortlessly cool throughout the film. Some of the dialogue isn't as good as that in the classic Dirty Harry films but there's still enough laconic lines for the Eastwood fan to get by on.
So its no classic by Eastwood standards, but as comedy/cop/thrillers go, which also happens to star a living legend, its a dam sight better than you might expect given it rather poor reputation.
Mercifully Forgotten 
2008-08-20 - Clint Eastwood has always been one of the biggest movie stars in the world and it's not that we always want to see him do the same things over and over again...but he doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to comedy. If you've suffered through BRONCO BILLY or PINK CADILLAC, you know what I mean. They work about as well as playing Dirty Harry in a clown suit.
From what I could stomach of THE ROOKIE, it's the same thing. I think most of it was meant to be a comedy. I think. If it was meant as a comedy, THE ROOKIE puts EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE into the Classics category of comedies.
And after 20-some years of Charlie Sheen, it's obvious he got where he did because of his father. In his biggest roles, PLATOON and WALL STREET, he's the new recruit, the empty suit, the fresh-faced nobody who barely shows up on film. Oddly enough, he's shown more life in his hooker-cluttered party life and repellent divorce from Denise Richards--but not as a character we could ever care about. After reading Sheen's incredibly ugly texts about hoping that Denise dies like her "bald mother" (she was fighting cancer), I'm even less impressed by anything such a jerk does in film or television.
To be honest, I'd completely forgotten about this piece of junk until I remembered feeling embarassed for Clint during the scene where he cusses for a TV news reporter. Painful.
