Another set-piece movie that is like a bad night at the theatre.

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2020)

This movie is just riddled with inaccuracies and mistakes. First of all, a Catholic priest will NEVER come to you to coerce a confession out of you! EVER!! Second, being a nostalgic older man who is behind the times is not a sin!! Neither is having an unfavorable attitude about the bad things happening in your neighborhood! Neither is being rigid and stubborn!!
That said, Clint's acting has hit a new low. His grumble whenever something annoys him is about as forced as his twin-speech on Dirty Harry.
Another error is the portrayal of Asian people in general. Asians definitely don't run around in that many gangs throughout America, and are generally not so incompetent even if they do!! The scene where they bring massive amounts of gifts to Walt's front door is stereotypical and insulting as hell!!! So is the portrayal of Asian religious beliefs!!
As is usual with the race hustlers in this country, they get almost everything wrong, including the identity of the problem!! This movie moves within about 1 square block of this tiny street with row houses, and a grumpy guy with a small lawn!! The movie is about as preachy as a high school health class video!!!
The story revolves around the stealing of this old man's prized possession, a Gran Torino car, in mint condition. A slow witted Asian with some form of autism, is coerced by his gang-member distant relatives to steal it, which he fails to do!! I mean, that scene was about as bad as it could get!!! You can't sympathize with a character who never speaks!!! This entire film is riddled with very embarrassing misnomers.
In the end, they turn this Walt Kowalski guy into the liberal conformist pushover they want him to be!! It's just entirely embarrassing and insulting to the intelligence of the audience!!! The idea that there would be gangs in this multi-ethnic city without any drug dealing is just absurd!!!
Another aspect of this that I found is that this movie is abusive towards white people!! You heard right!!! There is an old, mean Asian grandmother who, from her front porch, begins releasing a diatribe to Walt about how he should have moved out long ago!! I'm sorry, this whole line of thinking is an abusive excuse for abusing white people!!! This idea that we should have moved if we didn't want to have to deal with the crime in our area!!! This idea that it is somehow a sin to be 'behind the times'!!!