The Eiger Sanction
The Eiger Sanction $8.06
Tags: Eiger, Sanction
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Now did he throw six snowballs or was it only five? To tell you the truth, I kinda lost track myself in all this boredom.
Hemlock? Leave it out. Whose called Hemlock? Do I look like a Hemlock? Yeah, more like Jack Crabsbelow. How many people have surnames that fit their chosen profession? George W Blunder. Pamela Airhead? Actually, I do recall a dog-catcher named Jackie Russel. Bang goes another smartypants review.
Rating: 2 / 5
I purchased the Eiger Sanction, at Amazon.ca; unfortunately, when I began to play, it wouldn’t play; it became stuck in the drawer of the DVD player.
I had to return the player to its vendor, Canadian Tire, in Montreal, where the wonderful people there, took the player apart, and gave me a new one, under the warranty.
So, consider this a warning to Amazon.ca, check each copy of the Eiger Sanction, before it is sold, for myself, I returned my copy, and will never order it again, unless you check it first.
Rating: 5 / 5
While Clint Eastwood struggles to find cinematic identity in the post Spaghetti Western and pre-Dirty Harry times, the movie goer is forced to endure a number of incarnations, notably the Good (Play Misty for Me), the Bad (Where Eagles Dare), and the Ugly (The Eiger Sanction).
Actually Dirty Harry had been released before any of these films, but I couldn’t resist.
Another poorly adapted (nee Where Eagles Dare) novel, this film would serve as only marginal TV-movie fare today. With supporting stars George Kennedy and Jack Cassidy, this big screen version feels much like a TV-movie anyway.
Beautiful Swiss landscapes can’t prop up a weak whodunit, diluted even further by time-capsuled character types and sexual innuendo.
There are probably 40 better Eastwood movies than this one.
Rating: 1 / 5
I haven’t seen the Eiger Sanction. I just can’t stand idly by while someone slags off “Where Eagles Dare”. It’s a brilliant film. Disregard any twaddle posted here to the contrary, Top 500 Reviewer or not. Too bad it’s not out on DVD.
Rating: 3 / 5
THE EIGER SANCTION is definitely not a film that would have foreshadowed the great films Clint Eastwood would achieve later in his career. If it weren’t for the mountain climbing scenes, this movie is rather lifeless and dull. Clint plays a college art professor (duh?) who was once a top notch assassin, and he is blackmailed into doing two sanctions for the albino head of some covert agency (played by the late Thayer David, who I will remember from his roles on TV’s Dark Shadows). His sanction is the Eiger Sanction, his job to kill one assassin who got away; the problem is he doesn’t know who the assassin is. Along for the ride are Vonetta McGee, hopelessly miscast as Eastwood’s lover and a fellow agent; Jack Cassidy, hamming up his role as a homosexual ex-partner of Eastwood’s; George Kennedy, fresh from his Cool Hand Luke Oscar as Eastwood’s good buddy mountain climber; and Gregory Walcott as the obnoxious henchman of David’s, who also likes to chew up his scenery. After a fairly suspenseful opening in which an agent is killed for secret microfilm, the movie plods along until its climax. I don’t know why Eastwood chose to spend so much time showing us the Arizona landscape and his “working out to get in shape” for the climb scenes. They’re drawn out and impede suspense possibilities. The movie is okay for a 1970’s flick, but it pales in comparison to most of Clint’s later work.
Rating: 3 / 5