Clint Eastwood has been my hero since his days as the fresh-faced TV cowhand Rowdy Yates in RAWHIDE. His movie career has been marked by great films dedicated to righteous violence and terse expressions; THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, THE GOOD THE BAD THE UGLY, DIRTY HARRY, THE UNFORGIVEN et al. Even more surprisingly he’s a good director who made me cry in his jazz movie AROUND MIDNIGHT. Clint Eastwood is old, but the kind of old you want to be at his age; lean and craggy instead of morbidly obese like a third of this country. At his age most men are trying to remember their purpose in life, but in GRAN TORINO Clint resurrects the good man haunted by death fighting to save a young Hmong boy’s life from a gun gang.
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No one plays Clint like Clint and his car in this movie is a classic muscle car. The type of car America used to make when it was really America, but those times are gone.
Certainly none of the new actors can hold a candle to the hurricane of his wronged persona. In GRAN TORINO his character reflects a new America where sometimes you have to let go of the old to live again without the old dreams.
No one does it better.
And the ax fight in the end is incredible.