What does everyone want with my car?

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2009)

Gran Torino is one of Clint Eastwood's greatest achievements in film. And this coming from a man who created some of film's Greatest heroes or antiheroes Josey Wales Dirty Harry The man with no name and many others. This film continues the trend Eastwood began with the Flag of our Fathers and continued with Letters from Iwo Jima. Humanizing the after effects of the trauma of war. Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski a bitter Korea War vet he's not happy with the way his life has gone he's not happy with the past and he's certainly not happy with the present and the future the way it's shaping out to be. His wife has died and his neighborhood has gone to the Asians in fact his neighbors are a family of Hmong who are having problems of their own. their world's collide when the oldest boy is pressured by his cousin to join his gang his initiation steal Walt's prized 1972 Gran Torino. When Walt stop's the car theft and saves the boy from the gang their world's become intertwined. Walt the loner does not want anything to do with them but slowly he gets drawn in and soon he cares deeply about the boy Thao almost as much as a father cares for a son. Comedy and tragedy mix in equal combinations to create one of the most stunning finishes I have ever seen in any movie that even now still lingers even after the movie has been long over. This is not a movie for the sensitive nor the political correct. But rather a movie for everyone caught up in a future they never could've seen coming and anyone caught in a culture clash they can't understand but Eastwood does and this is his statement and it is a powerful one. They Say Gran Torino is Eastwood's last time acting well if so he left on a grand high note.