Comparing it to the last DIRTY HARRY boxset you do get more extras like badges and booklets. And the transfer of the 1st DIRTY HARRY movie is better, but MAGNUM FORCE looked too pumped up with color in some scenes and grainy. On AMC they had a DIRTY HARRY marathon and they were showing these new dvd transfers. Except for the 1st movie the old transfers are better from the old set.

This is one of the better compiled collections. The comments from Clint Eastwood regarding the making of the original Dirty Harry and how he got the part was especially interesting. Excellent quality. This is a must collection for those who enjoyed the Dirty Harry movies, and Clint Eastwood in particular.

I give this DIRTY HARRY movie collection 5 STARS and 5 THUMPS UP it very good and the restored they did to this series is great specail features great the extras like the bage and wallet poster cards and book just to name some of the extras are great the price is fair.I give this movie collection my highst reactamendtion

DIRTY HARRY has stood the test of time and remains a classic film based on the mores of a modern society tempered with logical judgment of how to dispense justice to those unlawful individuals in that society. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry is the personification of that tool of logical judgment much to the disdain of his superiors and to the legal system he works within. DIRTY HARRY and SUDDEN IMPACT are the two films that bring the motivations and morality of this character under close scrutiny as he comes full circle with a rather dichotomous approach to his job over the span of time of these two films. When I first saw SUDDEN IMPACT I thought Clint Eastwood had somehow sold out on the underlying essence of the character he had been portraying. He took the realistic base from the first three DIRTY HARRY films (DIRTY HARRY, MAGNUM FORCE and THE ENFORCER) and replaced it with some type of pseudo surrealistic parody that seemed so repulsive it bordered on bad taste to say the very least. However, after repeated viewing it started to grow on me and I actually wanted to watch it over and over. I couldn't get enough of it. It certainly was not the same Dirty Harry but it had a very blunt approach for dealing with crime and criminals. In the first three films the bureaucrats constantly accused Harry of crossing the line yet the audience knew Harry was right and the bureaucrats were just a bunch of crybaby liberals (at least that's what the directors wanted us to think). In SUDDEN IMPACT Clint Eastwood is at the helm. Eastwood proposes a question to the audience: You like crazy? Do you want to see crazy? I'm going to give you crazy. Film making is a business and like a good businessman Eastwood gives his audience what they want. Yet Eastwood is no fool. Without artistic merit this film would have been a failure. Eastwood is playing the auteur filmmaker here and he is very successful at it. This film is way ahead of its time. The fabric of a sane society is being pulled apart. Family values, if you like, are out the window. Eastwood collects the most vile, repugnant and repulsive villains for this film that literally defines the meaning of trailer trash. The Mafia hoodlums at the beginning of the film look like... choirboys compared to the bunch of wacko amusement park crazies he ends up exterminating by the film's end. If Eastwood had not directed this film with his offbeat humor and unconventional style, if he had played it as a straight drama, the critics would have screamed murder. SUDDEN IMPACT is a good film. It's a stand-alone modern day apocalyptic tale delivered for your approval by Dirty Harry. Looking at MAGNUM FORCE there is an attempt to justify the true motivations of the character but that film is not successful thematically and is rather heavy handed. THE ENFORCER's straight forward approach is more satisfying. THE DEAD POOL is a rather lethargic almost sentimental look back at Harry and perhaps he has been assimilated by the very society he operated in and the system that no longer really seems like a system. Yet Harry has some of that starch still left in him. I can still remember Reni Santoni asking in the original DIRTY HARRY, "Why do they call you Dirty Harry?" Now we really know.

Those of you looking at this product and reading these reviews have probably already seen all or most of the movies and are considering buying this set because you like them. So ignore all the nonsense and ask yourself just this one question: Is there more value in buying this box set, or in obtaining each of these movies individually? The answer is indisputably in favor of the box set. Not just because the movies are cheaper as a group, but because of all the quality extras you get. I'm not talking about the cheesy poster reproductions and the silly police star, I'm talking about all the interviews and scholarly debates about the social impact of the movies that are included in the extras. By watching these you will discover for instance, why the studio decided to follow Dirty Harry with Magnum Force. Additionally, there is a bonus CD with an interesting feature about Clint Eastwood's career.
Dirty Harry is as popular today as he ever was largely because some of the same problems addressed in the films are still with us today: a justice system where it is difficult for the victims of crime to receive real justice, money and influence buying lenient treatment, rampant political correctness, and a press with an attitude that assumes the police are nearly always wrong when it comes to any high-profile case or any case involving any of the press' pet roster of the "oppressed". That angered the average citizen then and it angers them now. Dirty Harry knew what to do: you don't coddle the criminal, you eliminate him so he will commit no more crimes. That resonated with a large segment of the population and still does.
I like all the films to a certain degree but my favorites are the very topical Dirty Harry whose Scorpio adversary had real-life parallels in the Zodiac killer, The Enforcer where the rag-tag People's Revolutionary Strike Force had a real-life parallel in the Symbionese Liberation Army, and Sudden Impact where it is delightful to see Sondra Locke actually get justice by NOT being charged in the revenge killings of her rapists thanks to a technicality of the sort that usually benefits the criminal.
So, if you're wondering whether or not you should buy Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition, ignore the few naysayers and stick it in your cart. Its a set you'll enjoy for life.