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The Gauntlet - 1977

reviewed by GenghisTheHun

GenghisTheHun
11/13/2008

The Gauntlet - 1977 3

I would have a tough time rating a Clint film fewer than three stars, but this flick comes perilously close for me. I guess that Clint needed another vehicle for his squeeze, Sondra Locke.

Among all the improbable events in the movie, the worst was the final scene with the bus surviving a hail of gunfire that would have stopped the Russians at Stalingrad. Assuming that the police had ONE 30/06 rifle on the scene, with standard anti-personel ammunition or even possibly some armor piercing, which would be logical if you are trying to stop a vehicle, enough holes could have been shot into the engine that it would would have wheezed to a stop long before it reached city hall, the court house or whever it was going.

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ma duron commented 377 days ago.
Mebbe it looked good on the written page. After all, there have been occasions in movie history (think John Frankenheimer's 'Ronin' or, better still, 'The Bourne Supremacy'?) where creative editing makes the improbable entertaining.
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