Eastwood Gold

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2012)

Gran Torino is Clint Eastwood's masterpiece picture, both as an actor and as a director. It almost feels like Eastwood is an older version of Christopher Nolan, at the fact that every film made is astounding. Westerns aren't made much these days. This is a largely known fact. So a gangland film is the closest he could get to the Wild West. And the guns are blazing, the characters are spitting venom and the community is completely in a motion of terror. The title of the film is the name of Kowalski's (Eastwood) 1972 car, which his neighbours try to steal. Now, the film takes a bit of an ironic direction, something Eastwood is easily able to do. His Hmong next-doors are from the same origin as the Koreans he killed in the war, and they try to steal his car and end up being taken away by Hispanics and Kowalski saves the people who tried to steal from him. A review is not enough for this film. It is such a powerful and emotional film that 10/10 doesn't do it justice.