Gran Torino (2008)

Directors:

Clint Eastwood

Writers:

Nick Schenk

Actors:

Jeffrey Scott Basham, Arnold Montey, Darline Bucchare, Claudia Rodgers, Rochelle Winter, My-Ishia Cason-Brown

Synopsis:

Widower Walt Kowalski is a grumpy, prejudiced, tough-minded, unhappy, old, Korean War veteran who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbours. His prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbour, Thao—a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin—tries to steal his Gran Torino, Walt sets out to reform the youth and takes steps to protect Thao and his family from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.
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71

Gran Torino (2008)

I would have liked to have rated this higher. Eastwood continues to rule as the redemptive curmudgeon but the script is overwritten (the vigilantism felt especially far-flung) and it seems confused in its ideas on a better nature. Disappointingly clichéd.
MildredFierce
April 14, 2014