Gran TorinoIf there's one thing I can say about this movie is that Clint Eastwood is great in front of the camera. The rest of the film not so much.
Clint Eastwood is a grumpy old racist Korean War vet living in a ghetto with a bunch of immigrants and minorities, how convenient. Filled with blatant stereotypes and some horrible writting, this movie had me cringing more often than grinning. It seems the writer needed to include every kind of minority possible as we get gangs of mexicans, asians and african americans, all of them stupid violent and obnoxious.
A movie where none of the characters are likable and the ones that are meant to be are played by some really horrible actors. It was hard to enjoy this movie and I didn't. A male bonding scene consisting of Clint Eastwood's characters teaching a young boy to swear and use offensive racial slurs is horrible and played for laughs. A movie where the height of the emotional payoff concerns an old car and a lighter, Gran Torino sure as hell ain't no Dirty Harry.
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