The Rookie

1990

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

40
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 31370 31.4K

rookie cop

Plot summary

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

Director

Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood

Top cast

Joel Polis Photo
Joel Polis as Lance
Clint Eastwood Photo
Clint Eastwood as Nick Pulovski
Marco Rodríguez Photo
Marco Rodríguez as Loco Martinez
George Orrison Photo
George Orrison as Detective Orrison
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801.57 MB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
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1.70 GB
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English 2.0
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2 hr 0 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thebushwacker 6 / 10

The quiet but deadly rookie . .

"The Rookie" 1990 is a fairly good movie, but it's not great. Strangely, both Eastwood and Sheen delivered their lines terribly: awkward, lame, and uninterested. Sonia Braga isn't all that great in this movie either. Lara Flynn Boyle is so hot, as usual, and I forgot to rate her acting. Raul Julia seems to be the only one capable of saying his lines convincingly and with menace. When a movie is loaded with great, famous actors, and they are doing badly, I am thinking someone else is to blame, and I'm looking at Clint Eastwood. Other than the stiff acting, the movie is fun to watch, and entertaining. When David finally gets mad, and goes off on a mission to rescue Nick, you find yourself saying, "It's about time!" And mentally, you feel yourself saddling up your horse. // The Bushwacker 8/28/2021.
Reviewed by alex_with_a_P 5 / 10

A Frankenstein attempt to mix Serpico with Police Academy

THis is one of the weirdest cop buddy movies I've seen.This movie starts with being the usual fluff cop film that we know from the 80's: Veteran cop who doesn't give a damn about orders and is a know-it-all gets a new partner. New partner is of course the complete oppposite of veteran cop, so we spent half the movie of them getting to like each other.And to be honest the first half of this movie is actually quite decent, the two cops bond slowly and naturally together, not over a shoot-out or a life-threatening situation where one guy saves the other. No, it's a fairly simple thing like the love of motorcycles.Little details like this is what made the movie grow. But somewhere along the lines the writers pull out a jackhammer and the plot gets very outlandish with cartoon villains that are supposed to be Germans but look like Colombians.At the same time the movie decides to take a deep dive into the psyche of the rookie cop and goes full-Taxi Driver. Something completely out of the left field. The scene in itself is quite entertaining, it's just that it feels like we're watching a completely different movie suddenly.The tone is all over the place.Mild spoilers: Even the title "The Rookie" hints that the movie's focusing on Charlie Sheen's character but the movie spends equal amounts of time. But during the third act both cops get seperated and everyone is on their own adventure. The conseqences of their action's feel disjointed, but it doesn't matter since we're eventually rushed through the showdown. And this one is dragged out into three set pieces. Again, all by itself those action set pieces work but they feel clumsily stitched together.This whole movie feels like a bunch of good ideas thrown into the wall and see what sticks. Too bad, because Eastwood and Sheen have a very unique chemistry in the beginning but it is all blown into smithereens later on.
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