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The Dead Pool
Directed by Buddy Van Horn
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick game to predict such deaths, it may be too late. From TMDB
81 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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The Dead Pool is a 1988 action crime drama film, directed by Buddy Van Horn, starring Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson and Liam Neeson.
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60 of 81 · most liked firstRemembering classic Cop 🚔 in 198️⃣8️⃣ action thriller The Dead Pool 🎬 with Clint Eastwood 🇺🇸 AkA "Dirty" Harry Callahan🚨It was the 5️⃣ and final film🍿in the Dirty Harry series 📺 He had some excellent one liners 💬 but "Go ahead, make myday"💥 was my favourite ❤️🔫😁 #ClintEastwood #DirtyHarry #HarryCallahan
positive · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Filmsky 8/1: Music video in a movie "The Dead Pool" (1988); Clint Eastwood Jim Carrey's character films a music video to the tune of Guns N' Roses "Welcome to the Jungle", with Liam Neeson as the impatient video director. Language warning👇 youtu.be/cMh6UjbjgRs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Clint Eastwood and Patricia Clarkson in a publicity still for THE DEAD POOL (1988), the final Dirty Harry movie Clarkson was BOTD in 1959
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld reportedly took the name for the character from the final Dirty Harry movie ‘The Dead Pool’ (1988). (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m finally ready to reveal my Dirty Harry movie rankings: 1. Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool (all tied) 5. Dirty Harry
positive · AI labelView post →if you want to see some truly horrific acting watch the first five minutes of the final Dirty Harry film, The Dead Pool, Jim Carrey plays a drug addled rock star miming Welcome to the Jungle, I reckon if I was Axl Rose I would have sued - don't know what for but jesus, also Neeson's ponytail..
negative · AI labelView post →A couple sequels and a couple spins of the roulette wheel. "The Haunted Strangler" was good Karloff fun. "The Dead Pool" completes Dirty Harry's lionization from dirty cop to hero cop. "Beau Travail" was not finished; way too dull, tapped out halfway. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →HARRY'S GAME. I review the last Dirty Harry movie, THE DEAD POOL, right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here is Guns n Roses in 2 separate scenes in the Clint Eastwood movie The Dead Pool. In the first scene they are Jim Carrey's funeral. In the second Slash, ya know, has a harpoon.
neutral · AI labelView post →Siskel & Ebert review the underrated The Dead Pool, the godawful Phantasm 2, the brilliant Midnight Run, a good but not great Rohmer film in Boyfriends and Girlfriends, and they split on Die Hard. #filmsky 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6j...
neutral · AI labelView post →That's a good one! I had a moment like that: Carrey lip-synced Guns-n-Roses in front of Liam Neeson in the Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool, and I still can't believe we were alive to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMh6...
positive · AI labelView post →And our leading lady for this week’s #FridayThrillerClub is Patricia Clarkson (also pictured: Clint Eastwood) #TheDeadPool #PatriciaClarkson #DirtyHarry #80smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Posters for “The Dead Pool” (1988) from The USA and Japan #FridayThrillerClub #TheDeadPool #DirtyHarry #80smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dead Pool, Eastwood’s last Dirty Harry film—and Liam Neeson’s first action film! Harry pursued by radio-controlled car filled with C4 through streets of San Francisco.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I started watching the Dead Pool, oh my god it really is an utter disaster of a film, nearly finished because I have to..the first Dirty Harry was made by Don Siegel, old school, hard boiled, tell the story, make sure the script is good, then finish it...see his movies instead..
negative · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social #Filmsky August 1 – Music video in a movie THE DEAD POOL boxd.it/1VJ4
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a movie that starts with the word THE. The Dead Pool
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: The Dead Pool directed by Buddy Van Horn released July 13, 1988. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin, Darwin Gillett, Anthony Charnota, Christopher P. Beale, John Vick, Jeff Richmond. #Noir
neutral · AI labelView post →I know, right? It feels like we are living in a Batman movie without Batman. Hell I'll take the Dead Pool guy at this point.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was a legacy win, rather than the film being any good win. Mind you, compared to his other output of the same era, ie The Rookie, The Dead Pool, and other generic thrillers that are basically "macho cop TV movie of the week" material, it was actually good. but only by comparison.
negative · AI labelView post →IT keeps asking me to sign in to keep watching... #FridayThrillerClub #TheDeadPool #WrongRyan
negative · AI labelView post →God, I don't think I do. I mean I watched the TV edit of ROBOCOP but that hardly counts. I remember the first movie I was so disturbed by that I had to stop watching, tho: the final Dirty Harry movie, THE DEAD POOL. A guy is set or sets himself on fire and that was too much for li'l ole me.
negative · AI labelView post →When The Mask whips out a bunch of guns, he says “Now you have to ask yourself one question. "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya? Punks!” This nod to Dirty Harry was intentional since Jim Carrey was in the final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool. #FFBMovieNight
neutral · AI labelView post →look i wish there were a better movie demonstration of how betting markets can change or induce behavior than Dirty Harry: The Dead Pool, but it's really all we got so far. noone has made Jim Bell's "Assasination Politics" into a movie yet
neutral · AI labelView post →The last Dirty Harry movie was called The Dead Pool. Rich sociopaths have wagers on which celebrities will die first, and one of them decides to cheat. Bonus for Jim Carrey as a rock star victim, we get to see his best Axl Rose impression and lip synch to Welcome to the Jungle. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Evan C. Kim is most known for playing Dirty Harry's partner in The Dead Pool. The first thing I think of is the "fistful of yen" segment in Kentucky Fried Movie. #ghwp
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been an enjoyable and sunny day. Now relaxing with a film and a first watch for me of The Dead Pool. I'm intrigued as to how this stands up against the other Dirty Harry films. Some familiar faces at the beginning which surprised me. #Movienight 🎬📽😃
neutral · AI labelView post →That was essentially the plot of the 1988 Dirty Harry movie “The Dead Pool.” The obvious problem is that even if you end up with a list of suspects that doesn’t undo any of the harm from the crime itself.
neutral · AI labelView post →After five films and countless bad guys dispatched by his trusty Magnum, Dirty Harry heads off into the night to enjoy a well-earned retirement. The Dead Pool is the least substantial film in the series, but it’s also quite fun as well: boxd.it/fHKRiV
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait, Jim Carrey is in the Dead Pool??? Jim Carrey is in a Dirty Harry movie??? Yes I’m watching all the Dirty Harry films for the first time.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you remember the Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool you will remember how Harry sends a mafioso criminal into a fatal stroke simply by flashing some pages at the man saying they contained incontestable evidence of guilt. The guy vapor locks and dies. It's a nice dream to have starring Dear Leader.
neutral · AI labelView post →I rewatched all five movies as part of my semi retirement experiment a year or so ago. They are great until the 4th movie, ‘Sudden Impact.’ ‘The Dead Pool’ is only notable for being Liam Neeson’s first Hollywood vehicle.
negative · AI labelView post →I didn't like Shao Khan's helmet design, but I loved how he was interpreted (finally, a live action Shao Kahn in a non-shitty movie). The Dead Pool was cool to see, Johnny Cage and Baraka were great, and Kano was hilarious. I had a good time, though they maybe crammed a bit too much in there.
neutral · AI labelView post →heh, do R/C cars count as drones? (much later than the above, but still "forever ago" - "The Dead Pool", 1988 dirty harry movie, R/C car with a bomb in it...)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dead Pool is not a good movie but it does have Jim Carrey lip syncing to Welcome To The Jungle so maybe it's Good, Actually www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMh6...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Dead Pool (HD) is available today on (Amazon)(US) for $4.99 Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie Genre: (Thriller) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_pool/
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dead Pool. Yep, he was in a Dirty Harry movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Gene says The Dead Pool is the best Dirty Harry movie next to the original, and Roger appears to be in full agreement
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally the final "Dirty Harry" movie, "The Dead Pool". Which also was somehow the first "Dirty Harry" movie I saw, on TV, so that stuck with me.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dead Pool VHS has some interesting previews on it: Her Alibi (Bruce Beresford film with Tom Selleck) Stealing Home (Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster) Bird (Clint Eastwood film about Charlie Parker the Jazz Player and essentially the reason the Dead Pool exists at all)
neutral · AI labelView post →Apes is a phenomenal looking film, without a trace of "filmed in Canada" energy. You've almost touched on my point here: The Dead Pool feels like a TV movie, when it isn't.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think sometimes it's sold, sometimes it isn't. It doesn't offend me, it's just a fun thing for a film fan to notice, like day for night shooting. i know the Dead Pool is filmed in SF, that's why I said it has filmed in Canada "energy"
neutral · AI labelView post →TBH, I'm having a hard time even counting GNR here because THE DEAD POOL is a largely forgotten movie
neutral · AI labelView post →16 Blocks is genuinely a better Die Hard movie than DH4.0 & 5.0 in the same way that The gauntlet is a far better Dirty Harry film than The Dead Pool.
neutral · AI labelView post →My parents randomly started watching an old Clint Eastwood movie tonight, The Dead Pool (seems to be a Dirty Harry one?). It features a VERY young Jim Carey as a rock star junkie, and a young-ish Liam Neeson. Seeing them share a scene is… discombobulating.
neutral · AI labelView post →Guy who keeps asking whether you mean the Dirty Harry movie "The Dead Pool"
neutral · AI labelView post →personal Dirty Harry film ranking: 1. Dirty Harry 2. Sudden Impact 3. Magnum Force 4. The Dead Pool 5. The Enforcer
neutral · AI labelView post →i wish the canonical pop culture examplars of this were not a third rate dirty harry movie (The Dead Pool) and a zine-era cypherpunk screed (Assassination Politics, Jim Bell) but given the overwhelming malignance of these platforms i also dont think it can be ruled out
neutral · AI labelView post →For anyone interested, the Batman connections with The Dead Pool are as follows: The fifth & final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool was distributed by Warner Brothers, a studio who have owned & held distribution rights for Batman & all DC connected media since the 1970's #BatmanTAS
neutral · AI labelView post →BEWARE THE GRAY GHOST Within 25 minutes, this manages to work as a salute to the past, a generational passing of the baton & thanks to a plot device from The Dead Pool (a film which contains several of its own Batman connections), it is also a fantastically thrilling little adventure #BatmanTAS
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, but it actually stars Deadpool instead of Clint Eastwood.
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking at the dates, THE DEAD POOL came out a year after ROBOCOP, but obviously I didn't see either of these in the theatre so I'm not actually sure which I saw first, regardless. Anyway, the *actual* first R-rated movie I saw was probably just some comedy with swears or something.
neutral · AI labelView post →MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A critic with a heart? That’s a laugh.” David Hunt in The Dead Pool #TheDeadPool #BuddyVanHorn #SteveSharon #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dead Pool 🌕🌕🌕🌖🌑 Now we end the Dirty Harry series on a bit of a low. While it is still an enjoyable film, it fails to live up to what came before. It was certainly time to put the series to bed. Though, imagine my surprise seeing a young Liam Neeson opposite Clint Eastwood. 84% #TheDeadPool
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched all the Dirty Harry movies over the last week or so and got absolutely stun locked by encountering Jim Carrey in The Dead Pool (the 5th Dirty Harry movie from 1988) 🫨
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, there was a whole Clint Eastwood movie about this (“The Dead Pool”)
neutral · AI labelView post →Boxset Mentality: The Dead Pool We are now onto the fifth and final film of the Dirty Harry Boxset & this time we are onto The Dead Pool. Clint’s much older and still angry! So come an Another Slice subscriber and hear our reactions to this popular(?) Boxset www.anotherslice.com/unequalseque...
neutral · AI labelView post →January 17/Day 17 Favorite movie Jim Carrey character In recognition of Jim Carrey’s Birthday #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge As Johnny Squares “The Dead Pool” (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →This guy has no medical background he ought to just stay in Hollywood and do movies and leave medical opinions to the professionals. Jim Carrey the your boss from the movie the Dead Pool mine his own business
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) The Dead Pool 1080p (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Thriller) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, Evan C. Kim, David Hunt, Michael Currie
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