Get Off My Yawn

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2009)

Dumb, dumb, DUMB! I WANT to like Clint Eastwood, I really do. He is one of the few remaining true film stars and seems like a nice enough guy. The premise of this story was promising: a bigoted, crusty old Korean War vet with a chip on his shoulder forms an unlikely friendship with his Hmong neighbors. It COULD have been a great movie, and it started out well enough. But the acting was SO overdone, the script was SO cliché, and the characters were WAY too caricaturized, that the story soon lost all credibility. I was hoping that the film would portray a lesson about not giving up on people, even when they put up walls to keep people away. But Walt Kowalski was just plain mean. I found nothing likable about him. Part way through the movie, I thought, "Maybe this is supposed to be a comedy?" But if it is, I just don't think racial jokes and put-downs are funny. Sorry, Mr. Eastwood. This movie was a stinker.