Movie Review: 'In the Line of Fire'
In 1993’s suspenseful In The Line of Fire, director Wolgang Petersen pits Clint Eastwood's Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan and John Malkovich's potential Presidential assassin Mitch Leary. Working from a screenplay by Jeff Maguire ( Gridiron Gang, Timeline ), Petersen gives audiences an intelligent thriller which examines the psyches of its two antagonists as they play a deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the life of the President of the United States hangs on the balance. In the Line of Fire tells us that a now 50-something Agent Horrigan was a young and hard nosed Secret Service agent in charge of President Kennedy's security detail in Dallas on November 22,1963. Like his real-life counterpart Clint Hill, Horrigan is haunted by the fact that he lost the President of the United States under his watch. As a result of Frank's slide into depression and alcohol abuse, his marriage ended and his career with the Secret Service has stagnated. Inst...