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In Phoenix, the alcoholic and mediocre detective Ben Shockley is assigned by the Chief Commissary Blakelock to bring the witness Gus Mally from Las Vegas for a minor trial. Shockley travels to Vegas and finds that Gus Mally is an aggressive and intelligent prostitute with a college degree and she tells him that the odds are against her showing up in court. Shockley learns that she will actually testify against a powerful mobster and the mafia is chasing them trying to kill them both. He calls Blakelock and request a police escort from Phoenix to protect them. But soon he discovers that someone is betraying him in the police department. Now, Shockley and Malley hijack a bus and Shockley welds thick steel plates and transforms the cabin in an armored bus trying to reach the Forum. But they will need to drive through a gauntlet of police officers armed with heavy weapons.
A rundown cop who's always on the drink named Ben Shockley is assigned to accompany a foul-mouthed prostitute in Las Vegas to a protection program across the country in Phoenix to testify against highly placed authority figure, although first they have to get through a gauntlet of bad cops and the mob who actually want them both dead. So now the odds aren't in their favour, but Shockley is determine to do his job, no matter how big the odds are against them.
Classic Eastwood is on show here people. Although, it's not one of his greatest nor particularly original. But this reasonably familiar cop / action film delivers what it intended to do by giving us a taut little road movie across baron landscapes with a tremendous amount of brutally fast-paced shootouts and grand chase scenes. I mean a lot! To sum it up, shootouts, shootouts and even more shootouts. Watch things go boom with a lot going on at such a furious pace! What more could you want?
So you ask, why is this nothing out of the ordinary? Because this kind of thing wasn't particularly new within this era of films. There were definite shades of Dirty Harry; Eastwood's character Shockley was the exact opposite to Harry though. The one thing you'll notice is that there is no real excuse or depth behind the plot, but to stage one chaotic and stretched out shootout after another. Sometimes they feel like they go on forever! Nonetheless, they might be far-fetched and fail logic, but they're rather well set-up by director Eastwood. Giving us a sudden burst around each corner and because of that there's hardly a mundane moment uh, maybe Eastwood did overkill certain shootouts, but it did get the blood pumping! So, when the "exaggerated" climax hits the screen - at least the film was consistent in that aspect.
The performances were top-notch, with Eastwood's persona making any film his in watchable. He gives a stellar performance. Sondra Locke as Gus Mally was perfect. The chemistry between the leads was outstanding. The scathing and rough dialogue amongst them was a treat with great use of sarcasm and offbeat humour. The biting conversations truly built on the paranoia at hand with many top one-liners. This gives the film a buddy type of feel. Other key factors are the soothing blues soundtrack, well established camera shots that capture a beautiful landscape, but also the panic of the situation they face. While, there might be underlining themes running throughout the plot, I just didn't read too much into it.
Just leave your brain at the door and enjoy the total chaos and destruction that follows with your screen being sprayed with bullets! Definitely recommended for fans of Eastwood and gritty action films. In "The Gauntlet", as in a number of his other films, Clint Eastwood plays a tough cop. Ben Shockley, however, is very different to Harry Callahan (or, for that matter, to Walt Coogan, Eastwood's cool dude character from "Coogan's Bluff"). Whereas Dirty Harry is a ruthless but dedicated officer who gets all the tough jobs his colleagues don't want, Shockley is a disillusioned alcoholic (the first sight we have of him is a whiskey bottle falling from his car and smashing on the ground), a man who wants the important cases but never gets them and is counting down the days until his retirement.
Shockley is given what seems like a routine assignment. He is to travel from his base in Phoenix, Arizona, to Las Vegas to extradite Gus Mally, a witness in a forthcoming trial. (Coogan, coincidentally, was also based in Arizona). When he arrives, however, he receives two surprises. The first is that Gus is not a man but a woman. (It's short for Augustina). The second is that she is determined not to be extradited to Phoenix, claiming that she will be killed if she gives evidence at the trial. Shockley realises that Gus is due to give evidence against powerful Mafia figures, who will go to any lengths to prevent her from doing so. Worse still, it gradually dawns upon him that some of his colleagues in Phoenix are in league with the Mob and have set him up to be killed along with his witness. He is forced to "run the gauntlet" to get himself and Gus back to Phoenix alive, despite being pursued not only by Mob assassins but also by most of the police forces of Arizona and Nevada. (The bad guys have convinced the authorities that Shockley himself is, in fact, a killer).
Whereas "Dirty Harry" asked some important questions about law enforcement and the nature of justice, "The Gauntlet" is simply an action-adventure film with some romantic elements thrown in. (Gus starts out as a foul-mouthed prostitute, but it soon becomes clear that she has hidden reserves of courage and resourcefulness, and she and Shockley fall for one another). There are a number of set-pieces as Shockley and Gus try and outwit their pursuers. It never, however, tries to be a realistic action film. The set-pieces are all way over the top, sometimes almost hilariously so, more closely resembling battle scenes from a war film than the sort of shootouts one normally sees in cop movies. In one scene Shockley and Gus are under siege in a house which collapses after a relentless bombardment from police marksmen; they emerge untouched. In another they are pursued by a helicopter which crashes after hitting overhead power lines (a denouement I could see coming as soon as I saw pylons in the distance). The most bizarre sequence must be the finale when Shockley rides back into Phoenix in a hijacked bus. Although phalanxes of armed men fire enough ammunition into the bus to wipe out several regiments, he still succeeds in getting through the lines, suffering only a slight flesh wound. Gus is completely unharmed. The whole thing is made to seem even stranger by scenes that seem taken from a surreal comedy; the idea of bookmakers offering odds on whether a witness will survive to give evidence at trial could be out of Monty Python.
Preposterous action sequences do not always make for a bad film; think, for example, of how many unfeasible stunts the hero manages to perform in the course of every James Bond movie. The Bond films, however, manage to get away with being preposterous because they are made with a wit, style and lightness of touch largely lacking in "The Gauntlet", a film which manages to combine preposterousness with heavy-handedness. The action sequences may be fun to watch in themselves, but they do not really add up to a satisfying film overall. One of Clint Eastwood's weaker efforts. 4/10 The Gauntlet is classic Clint Eastwood: fast, furious, and funny. It tells a cheerfully preposterous story with great energy and a lot of style, and nobody seems more at home in this sort of action movie than Eastwood.
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