Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2009)

I sat in a full theater with what I suspect was a crowd older than me. You have to have a crowd like that to appreciate what Eastwood was trying to say.
The crowd laughed at all the right parts in the movie: the time when Eastwood's character would let out a stream of non-PC comments, and the time when he stood down the punks.
Maybe we have become a nation that is too PC and I believe Eastwood was telling us that. The old man had his ghosts and it was eating at him from inside. He couldn't relate to any other world. A man has to do what a man has to do is the saying, I believe. If you can't understand that, than you are not a man, just someone to be pitied or ridiculed.
But, there was a soft side of the character that opened the door to a relationship with a young man who really needed a father. The relationship grew so great that Eastwood's character did the most noble thing one man could do for another.
Eastwood was magnificent, Ahney Her was a treasure, and Bee Vang was perfect. I really hope to see more of these two in the future.