Absolute Power

Clint Eastwood has done it again. He’s produced this time a surprisingly interesting suspense drama in which the US president (Gene Hackman) is depicted as the literal villain. It’s also in some ways pretty inventive that the president is depicted here by the already pudgy Hackman.

The story goes like this: Eastwood here plays a professional cat burglar who breaks into a government owned mansion in the District of Columbia, where he witnesses, while in hiding, what turns from an incident... (more)