Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend, but even the actors and directors of his growth had their share in the wrong steps. The best roles of Eastwood They are real seminar characters in the history of the cinema. His worst, however, is not better than everyone else. Well, perhaps better than Tron Travolta, which has a full total total failures with a score of 0% on rotten tomatoes. According to the same web site, Eastwood's worst film, with a poor score of 13% RT, is the "Revenge of the Creature" since 1955, followed by the 1980s "Any Way You Do."

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His third worst, according to Tomatometer, is "City Heat" in 1984, and Roger Ebert seems to be in violent compliance with this rank. In fact, the celebrated critic is likely to claim that "City Warm" deserves to be the lowest rated by all Eastwood projects, as he wrote a stunning review of the film after the release of which seemed really anxious that the legend of the screen stopped so low.

Eastwood himself was not shy to share his opinions about his own filmmaking. He once Called for the West since the 1950s as "the worst film ever made". But even that cannot be compared to the hatred of Ebert. $ 38.3 million Against a $ 25m budget. So what went wrong and what disturbed the reviewer of "Chicago Son-Times" so much?

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Until the eighties of the last century, Clint Eastwood has already become a cinema legend, and as such could have done a lot of what he wanted - which was basically how he spent that decade. Unfortunately, he did not do much to preserve his inheritance and Eastwood's career struck a rock bottom by the end of the decade, just before he saved "Unforgiven". "City Heat" was a big wrong step on the road to his career in the 1980s.

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The film was set in 1933 and followed by private investigator Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) whose partner, Dehl Swift (Richard Rundtter), was killed by pigeons working for the Mafia Primo Pete (RIP Torn). Murphy is calling on his police partner, Lieutenant Colonel Spir (Eastwood), who is not Murphy's biggest fan, but agrees to help him resolve Swift's murder and avenge. As the trailer said, "Clint is a street smart flat. Burth is a chewing gum, and the heat together is on." Much of the film dialog coincides with this attempted nasty film Noir Patter that comes out less as hardly cooked and more like self-money.

Roger Ebert Of course he thought however. The critic was unimpressed by City Heath to say at least, asking in his 1984 review, "How are such trips like this?" For Ebert, the film reduced what was close to flawless filmography of Eastwood, which according to the reviewer allowed "his unmatched person to be parodied" in the film, leading to a historic sword of a game that Ebert seemed to be personally offensive.

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Roger Ebert was not the only critic to despise "City Warm". Indeed, the film is currently wearing a 22% rating Rotten tomatoesAlthough that result is based on only 18 views. Of those 18, six are top critics, and only two actually gave the film a positive overview. Only David Kerr of the Chicago reader seemed to be angry as Ebert with "city heat", however, describing the feature as "powerless - grotesque, chaotic, demoralized". Something about Eastwood's comedy, has clearly upset Chicago -based reviewers, then, because other negative downloads are not so harsh.

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The problems behind the scenes seem to have contributed to the fate of "city heat" as a critical failure. The film was written by Blake Edwards and directed by Richard Benjamin, but Edwards was originally set to direct it. However, Edwards was removed from directorial duties early in production, as a result of what was considered "creative differences" with Eastwood, clearing the way for Benjamin. Things were not going to a great start, and Ebert suspected that these problems outside the camera contributed to the overall quality of the film. "I have a feeling," he wrote, "the problem begins at the level of negotiations, in which everyone protects their grass and the film suffers."

But "city heat" suffered from more than the rear scenes. For Ebert, the film was not on his own joke, with the reviewer writing: "Dirty Harry's own films border on a parody - it's part of their charm - but they know what they are doing." City Heat "is a film in which people almost have no idea." The box office accounts, but simply not. It must be a heavy powder for swallow Reynolds, who also happened to act in one of his worst Western thanks to anyone other than Eastwood himself Still in 1966. "City Heat" did not complement that mistake, and if you asked Roger Ebert, I just worsened everything.

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