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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) is the king of thieves. One night, while robbing a mansion near Washington, D.C., he finds himself playing voyeur to a scene of tawdry intrigue: an illicit liaison that turns sadomasochistic, then brutal. The woman is a total stranger; the man (Gene Hackman) is...the President of the United States. Adapted from David Baldacci's best-seller and directed by Eastwood, Absolute Power begins on a note of entertainingly far-fetched hubris, but the film turns glum and depersonalized. It's as if Eastwood couldn't muster the energy to guide us through this maze of improbable twists. Hackman is playing a hyperbolic takeoff on Bill Clinton and his fabled promiscuity. But there's something garish about a thriller that's this lip-smackingly eager to transmute sleaze into murder.
Posted Feb 21, 1997
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