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Watch: Tightrope 1984 123movies, Full Movie Online – Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a detective who’s put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened..
Plot: Wes Block is a detective who’s put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 17,928
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 269 Popularity: 8.291 | TMDB

Reviews:

How is this not super entertaining?

‘Tightrope’ should have all the ingredients to make the viewer be on the edge of their seat, and yet I really didn’t care much for it. Clint Eastwood, who apparently took over unofficially as director from Richard Tuggle during filming, gives a solid performance and the bond with his character’s children is cute.

However, the story just didn’t do anything for me. It’s not particularly unnerving, despite a dark on paper story, and it’s rather predictable – the villain… well, the villain I’ve already forgotten about and I only finished watching about an hour ago.

Not terrible, but not good.

The Doppleganger disease.

Tightrope is directed by Richard Tuggle and Clint Eastwood, Tuggle writes the screenplay. It stars Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood and Rod Masterson. Music is by Lennie Niehaus and cinematography by Bruce Surtees.

New Orleans and Detective Wes Block is plunged into a hunt for a rapist serial killer that brings out his own deviant peccadilloes.

One of Eastwood’s best movies also happens to be one of his most under appreciated, the actor challenging himself to explore a darker characterisation than the iconographic ones he was most famed for. Wes Block is a damaged man, a divorced father of two girls, who he adores but they are uncomfortably at arms length due to his work. He’s afraid of affection, to be touched in a gentle manner by a member of the opposite sex, preferring to indulge in seamy sex by way of prostitutes who frequent the dark abodes of Orleans’ French Quarter.

If you knew what’s ahead…

Enter the doppelganger effect, as a mysterious serial killer is at large murdering the ladies of the night that Wes takes his pleasure with, the guilt factor hanging heavy on his haunted shoulders. As Wes tries to bring down the killer, he is battling to realign his mindset about the female sex, his daughters and also Beryl Thibodeaux (Bujold), the latter the rape counsellor who was once his sparring adversary, but is now a potential lover if Wes can put everything back on an even keel.

Tuggle, Eastwood and Surtees bring plenty of film noir touches to their picture. Surtees’ photography is strong in colour but dark in shading, perfectly embodying the seamy side of The Big Easy. Between them, actor and director fill out this fascinating tale with classic noirish scenes. A Mardi Gras warehouse is eerie, as is a chase through a cemetery, then there’s clowns and balloons, things that are associated with childish fun but so often in noirville carry a sinister edge. The sleazy dives that Wes frequents are foreboding places of sin, more so when the killer is stalking his prey. While a railroad location is used to great effect as well.

It has some problems, Hedaya is wasted and the Wes and Beryl relationship is telegraphed a mile away. While the formula of such movies inevitably means the culmination of tale is no surprise, but the journey is a dark and interesting one and Tightrope is a damn fine thriller. 8/10

Flawed but fascinating film noir & Eastwood pushes to the limit his star status…
…in a dark and unsettling psychological thriller. Directed by Clint’s protégé Richard Tuggle (who wrote the screenplay to the earlier Siegel-Eastwood classic ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979), the film’s first half is uncertain and suffers from clichéd (albeit well staged and visualised) New Orleans locations – shady whorehouse dives, red light tinged bars and over officious police procedural rooms and locker-room banter.

The plot itself is functional but nothing special: a serial killer with a penchant for young, pretty blondes, is terrorising the city by disposing of prostitutes by strangling them and dumping the bodies all over the city. The twist in TIGHTROPE is that the killer is also dogging the footsteps of kinky cop Detective Wes Block (Eastwood), a lonely divorcée with two young children. Block eases off the shackles of a tough day job by frequenting the very same sleazy dives that his thoroughly unpleasant nemesis does.

A predictable game of cat and mouse ensues, but the film’s stock film noir origins are transcended by Eastwood’s continual playing with his own star status and by a very interesting exploration of his character’s private obsessions and genuinely touching relationship with his two young daughters. Special mention here for real-life daughter Alison Eastwood, quite superb as the older and more perceptive girl, who clearly suspects her troubled father is up to more than just “looking for something” on his late night travels through New Orleans’s seamier districts.

The more conventional opening section of TIGHTROPE is distinctly misleading, largely because about half way through, the film’s most interesting character (played by the truly excellent GENEVIEVE BUJOLD) comes much more to the fore. As the feisty and fiercely intelligent Rape Crisis Center head Beryl Thibodeaux (nice use of Bujold’s French-Canadian heritage here for a movie set in New Orleans!) Bujold’s sharp dialogue exchanges with ultra macho Detective Wes Block-Clint Eastwood are a constant joy, and, of course, edge us deeper into film noir territory as Block’s kinky sexual practise and failed marriage become the focus of the investigation.

Tuggle does a generally excellent job of keeping the material visually interesting, although he pays less attention to the minor characters, wasting a great character actor like Dan Hedaya for the role of Block’s sidekick on the investigation. Overall though, this is an underrated film in the Eastwood canon and worthy of your attention. It’s a slick genre piece with a surprising ability to probe the areas of Eastwood’s star persona not normally explored in the Dirty Harry series.

A primal Effort
Clint Eastwood plays the typical tough cop this time around in New Orleans but has secrets. What starts as an interesting crime case and a question of Clint’s character drags into an overlong boring venture as the same thing that happens at the beginning continues after 90 of the 115 minutes. TIGHTROPE may add a new dimension to the typical Clint Eastwood character, but it is anything but beneficial.

A girl from the red light district is murdered. As night cop and detective, but supporting single father of two, Wes Block is on the case, but his weaknesses may also tie into the murder as the bodies are starting to pile up.

Exploring the dark side of human nature is a natural thing in Hollywood. A cop on the edge as much as Block is is a basic and easy way to convey the message. Very little to no artistic quality or direction in TIGHTROPE. The dark settings and scenery are reminiscent stuff of the early 80s (THE TERMINATOR, BLADE RUNNER). If TIGHTROPE was far more straight to the point it might be a bit more watchable than it is.

A primal effort by Eastwood to act in something besides an oater or shooter. Sadly the “available light” photography left much of the movie in the dark — literally. It scored a plus in the shock-horror department with a shot of the housekeeper’s body inside the clothes dryer. Suspense builds around the prospects of Eastwood’s daughter being kidnapped by the killer.A not particularly memorable film, but it got him to New Orleans.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 48143579
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director Richard Tuggle, Clint Eastwood
Writer Richard Tuggle
Actors Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1 (intended ratio)
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Cameras by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,133 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm