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A good thriller doesn’t just ask, “Will he do it?” It asks, “What part of you breaks while you try to stop it?” That’s why we had to go back to the 1993 political action thriller In the Line of Fire, where Clint Eastwood plays Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, the last active-duty man on the JFK detail, still haunted by the split-second hesitation he can’t forgive. The result is a movie that’s tense on the surface, but surprisingly human underneath.
We talk through what makes Wolfgang Petersen’s direction so watchable, from the tight pacing to the smart, early digital…
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