However, once you get past the fact that Ted Post, who directed Eastwood in the
spaghetti Western wanna - be Hang Em High, has chosen to mostly ignore the first film's visual appearance, it's easy to enjoy Magnum Force as a straight - forward action vehicle, with a tongue - in - cheek premise of the dirtiest cop on the force coming to
terms with his own feelings as far as seeing known criminals get away with murder.