What is happening here?

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2009)

After watching flags of our fathers and the million dollar baby, i though i am going to watch another solidly made movie by Clint Eastwood, but boy was i wrong. What was going through my mind most of the time during this movie was that how can this be? how can this movie be so bad? You could imagine how astonished i was when i came to vote for it here and saw that it has a 8.4 and is already in top 250!?! and I can not begin to understand why!?
The acting is down right bad, even Clint himself is far away from what you expect him to be. Dialogues are unimaginative, repetitive and plain corny and full of mostly unnecessary racial slurs, the characters are completely stereotypical and don't get much depth, many plots seem just pointless and don't lead to anywhere... and finally the directions is terrible. You see people waiting for their turns to say their lines, you see people looking into the camera and you see that the movie is seriously low budget, for example where presence of police is kept to the minimum necessary and the characters have to explain that police has already left... the whole thing looks and feels very cheap and amateurish.
I seriously hope that Clint did this just as a favor to someone (or lost a bet?)or for quick money, otherwise we might be losing a good director.