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''The Rookie'' is a 1990 buddy cop film directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Howard G. Kazanjian, Steven Siebert and David Valdes. It was written from a screenplay conceived by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel. The film stars Charlie Sheen, Clint Eastwood, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Tom Skerritt. Eastwood plays a veteran police officer teamed up with a younger detective played by Sheen (the ''rookie'' of the title), whose intent is to take down a German crime lord in downtown Los Angeles following months of investigation into an exotic car theft ring. Shot entirely on location in California during the spring of 1990, the film is distinctly remembered for its elaborate pyrotechnics and extravagant stunt work. The film crew's reliance on expensive sets and elaborate stunt equipment outweighed the need for utilizing extensive CGI special effects during production. Distributed by Warner Bros., the film never spawned a sequel. ''The Rookie'' premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States and Canada on December 7, 1990 grossing $21,633,874 in ticket receipts. The film was overshadowed by the continuing success of ''Home Alone'', which opened in theaters three weeks earlier and ended up being one of the top 100 highest grossing films of all time. Although considered a mild financial success, ''The Rookie'' was met with generally lackluster reviews before its initial screening in cinemas. After its theatrical run, it failed to receive award nominations for acting or production merits from accredited motion picture organizations in any category. ==Plot== LAPD Detective Sgt. Nick Pulovski and his partner, Powell, are assigned to the case of taking down the criminal empire of a German felon, Strom, who engages in grand theft auto and chop shop operations. During an encounter with Strom and his men, who are loading a semi-trailer truck with stolen cars, Powell is murdered. Nick, despite efforts to catch the criminals on the highway, ends up losing them. Consequently, Nick is removed from the case by his superior, Lt. Raymond Garcia, and given a new partner, David Ackerman, a young officer recently promoted to rookie Detective, who has continual nightmares and is plagued by guilt over his brother's death, believing it was his fault as a child. Against regulations, Nick and David start investigating the Strom case. Nick tracks down a man working for Strom, Morales, whom he forces to cooperate in return for immunity. Morales, under Nick's instructions, manages to plant a two-way radio inside Strom's house without getting caught, but is still murdered later on by Strom's companion, Liesl. Feeling pressured by the authorities, Strom deduces that there is a connection between Morales and another one of his operatives, Little Felix, who has also been secretly working as an informant for Nick regarding the disclosure of his illegal activities at his wrecking yards. Through the radio, Nick and David learn that Strom is planning to leave the country after robbing a local casino of two million dollars. Strom's men set off smoke bombs inside the casino and capture the general manager, Alphonse, forcing him to open the vault for them. Inside the vault however, are Nick and David, who had conspired with Alphonse to capture Strom. Yet Liesl, knowing of David's naïveté, dares him and distracts Nick long enough for Strom to pin the detective down to the floor. Liesl shoots David in the back; although he is not killed due to his bulletproof vest. But moments later, one of Strom's men, Cruz, discovers that the vault is empty. With police surrounding the building, Strom takes Nick hostage and demands the two million dollars as a ransom. Strom, however, has his hideout rigged with explosives, planning on destroying it with Nick inside while he escapes the country with the money. In trying to determine Nick's whereabouts, David tracks down one of Strom's henchmen, Loco Martinez, who previously pinched his ID badge at a shady bar. Loco, however, manages to elude David following a violent encounter with him at a dry cleaners where Little Felix is also found murdered. David then decides to turn to his estranged father, Eugene, for help in securing the ransom money, which he reluctantly agrees to. While at his father's office, David's girlfriend Sarah informs him over the phone that Lt. Garcia is at their house waiting to interrogate him. Just then, David is visited by two detectives, who claim that Garcia is at headquarters and has sent them to retrieve him over his alleged forbidden involvement in the Strom case and police brutality. David realizes that one of Strom's men, Loco, who previously stole his badge, is posing as him. David evades the detectives and races home on a borrowed motorcycle. During an ensuing physical confrontation between the two men, Sarah grabs David's gun and kills Loco. David is distraught, as he needed Loco alive to tell him where Nick is being held captive. However, David later notices Loco's car outside their door, a bizarrely colored Lotus, which he and Nick spotted earlier at a warehouse in which one of Strom's mechanics, Max, was working on. After killing Max in a struggle within an elevator shaft, Nick is rescued by David. The pair only barely escape the warehouse before the explosion by driving a Mercedes convertible through a wall, and later capture Cruz, whom Strom sent to collect the ransom. As the group arrives at the airport, Cruz gives Strom the money and is murdered. Nick and David open fire at the scene as a situation is created where one of Strom's men, Blackwell, in charge of flying him out of the country aboard a private jet, is killed following a collision with a commercial airliner. David later pursues Liesl into the airport and kills her, while Nick attempts to shoot Strom during his own chase, but ends up out of ammunition. Strom shoots Nick and prepares to finish him when David arrives and shoots Strom in the shoulder. Seriously injured, Strom collapses onto a luggage conveyor belt. Nick climbs on, and to avenge Powell and end the homicide spree there, kills him despite Strom's requests for medical attention. Sometime later, Nick, David and Garcia have been promoted. David is now a detective and Nick the new Lieutenant (though Garcia's new position is left unrevealed). In a scene reminiscent of Nick's first meeting with David, Nick introduces David to another "rookie" cop, Heather Torres, as his new partner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rookie (1990 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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