A masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2009)

I was more moved by Gran Torino than by any film I have watched - and I've watched plenty - for quite some time. The tears were literally streaming down my face, Mr Eastwood, so I reckon you done your job as director, and main actor, pretty damn good. This is a - superficially - totally 'American' film, and yet I cannot help but think that Eastwood has reached beyond Hollywood here, and brought back some of the knowledge he learnt from the masters in Europe. A superb piece of film-making. An artist at the very height of his powers, and with something very important to say. I've watched some of his other recent work and been very impressed, but his goes beyond that. Certainly one of Eastwood's best ever films. Brilliant.