A tall, cold cod like Eastwood removes the last pretensions to humane feelings from the action melodrama, making it an impersonal, almost abstract exercise in brutalization.

…a paean to American exceptionalism, individualism, and one hell of an action flick to boot…

Magnum Force is not a good movie, though it does provide a fine example of the gratuitous homophobia that seemed a mandatory element in every Clint Eastwood movie at the time.

"Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot." It's a telling line.