Wolfgang Petersen (“The NeverEnding Story”) directs this great thriller film that has some wonderful performances and some reasonable ideas. It more than satisfied my desire for a good thriller movie.

Clint Eastwood (“Dirty Harry”, “A Fistful Of Dollars”) stars as Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, who didn’t manage to save Kennedy. Now years after that tragic event Frank and his partner must ensure the new President isn’t killed by a clever and sick assassin (John Malkovich “Being John Malkovich”, “Con Air”). The race is on to find and stop this new threat before the country ends up with a dead man in charge.

Clint Eastwood does reasonably well as Frank Horrigan but his character isn’t particularly complex so we don’t need a great performance. John Malkovich is absolutely fantastic as the villain. He constantly changes appearances (via fake moustaches, wigs etc…) and he also changes body language and voice, which shows how great of an actor he really is. What I love in these movies is the little conversations the good guy and the bad guy have and we get lots of them here. The other characters aren’t particularly compelling but the two leads will entertain the audience enough.

“In The Line of Fire” starts off like it could be another “Dirty Harry” film but as it goes along it turns into a wonderful thriller. One of the movies silliest aspects though is how they’ve blatantly incorporated Eastwood into various pictures of the infamous parade in Dallas 1963. “In The Line of Fire” isn’t an action picture; it’s just a really entertaining thriller. I enjoyed the film for the performances and for the never-ending line of thrills. It’s not perfect by any means but I enjoyed “In The Line of Fire” quite a lot and I hope you will do.