Dreadfully Boring

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Good that Charlie Sheen pays homage to the superb Blazing Saddles at one point, but definitely towards the lower end of the scale in Clint Eastwood Police films. Raul Julia was a splendid actor, but he just does not look German - who ever thought he could convincingly play a German criminal? And why is it assumed that all someone needs to do to depict a Police Lieutenant or Captain is to get someone who shouts at everyone around him. Charlie Sheen's Father is entirely miscast as a very rich business-man - the actor does not look comfortable in a suit. Clint Eastwood throughout is good, but needed a better script and a less ordinary hand-gun (it just seems wrong for him to have a run-of-the mill .45 - or it could even be a 9mm/.38). Many of the supporting cast in fights and gunfights are clearly awaiting a cue before springing into ineffectual action. This should be classified as a Charlie Sheen film but Clint Eastwood probably would consign it to the back shelf.

The film uses all the most well worn tricks of the "buddy-buddy / old cop - rookie cop / poor down on his luck - rich privileged / rule breaking - rule following" action movies ever made and is at least honest enough not to try to pretend to be anything else. Clint Eastwood is an interesting choice in such a film and his performance is clearly better than the film actually demands. The Schwarzenegger like one-liners are made more amusing when coming from his lips although the crafting of a new catch phrase "You gotta light?" doesn't quite work. Charlie Sheen is mean, moody and handsome and isn't really required to be anything else, the dad-son "You were never there for me!" scenes are an embarrassment to be perfectly frank and could well have been omitted from the film.The story is simple about a veteran cop and his new partner, Charlie Sheen going on the rampage in LA for car thieves while in the pursuit of revenge for the murder of Eastwood's partner early on film by the leader of the criminal gang. It has Eastwood on good form with some good one liners and he is a joy to watch as he shows he is not over the hill and does what he does best in a cop role. Sheen puts on a good show and is convincing as a wet behind the ears rookie but soon breaks free from this when he goes berserk, as taught by his mentor Eastwood. The action scenes are great with some ferocious car chases, and none of the dodgy CGI you get theses days. The action scenes include a out of control car chase down the free way where a car transporter sheds it's load of luxury cars off the trailer into the traffic. The other stand out moment is when Eastwood and Sheen was escape a building ready to explode by driving out of the top floor window while the building blows up behind them. If you love Eastwood and his demeanor and quips and you love a good cop story this is something you need to see in one form or another.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

I really wanted to like this movie because I'm a huge fan of Sheen and Eastwood. I thought the combination of the two would make for a very entertaining action flick. Unfortunately, I was wrong.To me the whole thing felt like a random collection of individual scene ideas mashed together with little to no flow or adhesiveness. That, coupled with a script that doesn't allow Eastwood to go two sentences without a forced, usually unfunny joke, left me scratching my head as to what he was doing with this movie.There were so many hints of "Dirty Harry", but they were abbreviated by campy dialogue and banter. This made Clint's character hard to pin down in my opinion. The action wasn't too bad, but the music paired with it in most sequences made them feel slow and boring. There was no intensity or accelerated pace provided by the music choices.Overall I have to say the explosions were great, dialogue was awful, and any good acting in the film comes only from the top stars. Don't waste your time on this one.

The Rookie is better than some of the reviews on here suggest . While not the best Eastwood cop / action movie, or the best buddy cop action/ comedy . The Rookie is still enjoyable , well performed and well cast. Eastwood and Sheen had good chemistry and Raul Julia did a nice job as the villain . The action and stunts are in abundance here. A little overdone for an Eastwood film . However, this is very comparable to the other action films of this period. The Rookie is fast, furious and funny . It is not the best movie of its type , but I enjoyed it much more than The Dead Pool (my least favorite Eastwood film ). The Rookie has more in common with Lethal Weapon and other 80's action movies than Dirty Harry. Good for the genre and worth watching.