Before Geezer Teasers or age-defying M:I and Indy blockbusters, there were old man action thrillers. 30 years ago, Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery (both 63) ruled the box office. rockmarooned looks back at how movies used to treat their aging stars:
, trailed the likes of traditional male movie stars where surnames needed not apply: Tom , Sly, Harrison. But Eastwood and Connery were notable both for their near-retirement age and the fact that their ages weren’t really mentioned much as impediment to their stardom.
is Eastwood and Malkovich winding each other up. Wolfgang Petersen, the director Eastwood’s star would outlive, stages the chases and near-misses with taut professionalism that manages to foreground Eastwood’s toughness and his sixtysomething fragility both at once, but it’s ultimately a good, old-fashioned act-off that makes the movie: Eastwood, coiled but insecure, trying to keep his cool in the face of Malkovich’s smart-guy-gone-afield ex-CIA baddie.
, or at least ruminating on his advanced age . Sean Connery stayed active in film for another decade pastRising Sun Connor is called into a high-profile murder case in the midst of a major corporate deal, introducing Lieutenant Web Smith into the exotic, mysterious and menacing practices known as… Japanese business dealings! So yeah,, adapted from a Michael Crichton novel, is an embarrassment in terms of cross-cultural education, and pretty limp as a whodunit, too.
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