Eastwood still has it

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2012)

Walt Kowalski is retired auto worker in Michigan where most of the factories have been shut down. His resentment is taken out on the newly arrived immigrant neighbors who have moved in next door. They are Hmong people from Vietnam and are seen by Walt as the enemy. He is an old fashioned Archie Bunker type of racist not appreciating the changing demographics of America. He pines for the old all white, Christian city that he is used to.
After his wife dies, all he has left are distant children and expectant grandchildren waiting for him to die so that they can inherit his classic Ford Torino of the title. Clint Eastwood plays Walt perfectly and his direction is always top notch. The story turns a bit too sentimental but can be forgiven for Hollywood purposes.