Absolute Power

Pros: Ed Harris, Laura Linney, E. G. Marshall
Cons: totally unbelievable, paranoiac plot, and Eastwood's self-indulgence in expanded part

Offhand, I can't think of any part of this movie that I could believe might happen, but it was still somewhat enjoyable, especially the scenes in which the police detective portrayed by Ed Harris toys with and is toyed with by Clint Eastwood. The ...

Pros: Cast and plot
Cons: Some unbelievable things. Gene Hackman in a sex scene.

Clint Eastwood has made many movies during the course of his career. I have seen and enjoyed some of those movies. I haven’t been as fond of some of his other movies. Absolute Power is one of Eastwood’s movies that I did enjoy. ...

Pros: Nice try
Cons: but no cigar

Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood plays a geriatric cat burglar who robs a toney DC mansion only to get boxed in by the returning inhabitants – but wait; as he hides within the spacious secret vault he watches the fun through a two way ...

Pros: Most of the acting. Some suspenseful moments.
Cons: Plot is not tied together real well. Some scenes lack credibility.

It seems like anything and everything written by popular fiction authors John Grisham, Michael Crichton, or James Patterson in the 1990s was rushed into movie production shortly after the books hit the shelves. While some of these films were pretty good ...

Pros: Eastwood actually has a personality
Cons: It takes 45 minutes for the crime to happen

I knew what this movie was, as I had started to read the book on which it is based, by David Baldicci. But the book was so boring, I tossed it aside about one-third through it. It took forever for it to get anywhere. I thought that the movie version...

Pros: The directing and performances.
Cons: Hackman and Davis.

Clint Eastwood (over the years) has become one of the most interesting film makers to ever settle into the Hollywood nest. His work over the last 15 years, in particular. Absolute Power- while extreme in its premise, works because of its cast, the ...

Pros: E.G. Marshall isn't bad
Cons: Davis, Hackman, characters, screenplay

This flat and utterly ridiculous 1997 Clint Eastwood film gets off to a disastrous start. Clint play ...

Pros: Ed Harris's scenes with Clint Eastwood
Cons: any shred of believability

There's a lot that's really hard to swallow in this movie. Just to list a few:
that the Secret Service agents would appear just in time to shoot a woman having rough sex with a president
that his chief of staff (with whom the president is also...

Pros: ok-film..
Cons: n/a

It’s nearly impossible to summarize Clint Eastwood’s fine new thriller without destroying its many surprises. Adapting David Baldacci’s popular novel, screenwriter William Goldman (Misery, All the President’s Men) conceals a crucial element...

Pros: Suspenseful and engaging thriller.
Cons: Slow at times. Not Eastwood's best body of work.

Thanks to Bill Clinton we live in an era where our Presidents of the United States could do just about anything and we’d enjoy it. “Absolute Power” envisions a President who is a murderer, a drunk, and even worse a liar. So far we are two for three....

Pros: Ed Harris
Cons: not put together

You could call Absolute Power a "geezer" version of No Way Out, and not be far off. The setup of each movie is practically identical. In Absolute Power the U.S. president (played by Gene Hackman, pretty much reprising his role from No Way Out)...

Pros: Great suspense
Cons: Gets a little slow in the middle

My friend recommended this movie to me. I am glad she did. This movie started with a jump. I really enjoyed a full cast of famous actors. I am weary about having a full cast because sometimes is seems to take away from the film. I liked to see how...

Pros: A good, tense thriller
Cons: Yet another May-December romance

It seems like once Clint Eastwood hit 50 or so, all his action thrillers have gone so large-scale that they have to involve the U.S. President somehow. He's also taken the reins of most of his movies -- here he wields absolute power as star, director...

Pros: Eastwood
Cons: None

'Absolute Power' is one movie that, in this day and time, with Bill Clinton in the oval office, could quite possibly come true.

Probably not, but you never know.

'Absolute Power' is Clint Eastwood at his best...acting and directing....

Pros: Eastwood shows off his talents: From composing the theme song "Katie" for his "daughter" to actually appearing to sketch her as she lay in her hospital bed
Cons: Like many of Eastwood's movies (for me) alternates between riveting and blah

Clint Eastwood is Luther Whitney, professional thief. And, a darned good one. He is a master of disguise, quick and efficient in the art of deception. Although he's been convicted and has served time for theft in the past, he is a criminal with honor....