Eastwood = Great...rest of the cast: amateur

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2009)

Gran Torino was extremely entertaining. Eastwood's racist one liners had the entire movie. Eastwood himself did a phenomenal job portraying his character and appeared extremely badass as usual. There were a few things that soiled the movie though. The acting of every minor character was horrible. The lines written for Walt's family was clearly there for exposition of Walt's character and was extremely obvious in that. Two other complaints are 1) the soundtrack is extremely cheesy 2) Spoiler Ahead! When Walt dies it is way too obvious "Christ-like Imagery". The point could have been carried out without having him lay down like a crucified Jesus.
Overall though Eastwood's acting saved the movie and it is definitely worth seeing.