have never see the original dirty harry and i judge this movie on a clean slate . and i must say and i quite enjoy it . sure and some of the acting by sondre locke make me a little squeemish but hey and it be the 80 . but even if you can not get past her ( and i almost couldn not ) or her revenge killing ( which seem a little . overdone while p ) and it worth it just for dirty harry . or at the very least and the bull dog he affectionately name meathead representp positive .