Clint Eastwood as a grumpy old man. What a shock!

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2010)

I started watching the movie with great expectations, which is probably the reason why I was slightly disappointed with it. Yeah, Clint Eastwood plays a good role, but how could he not? What remains is the story itself and it was both interesting and profoundly stupid.
We meet this old guy, a pillar of faith in his own preconceptions, suddenly evolving under the pressure of Asian neighbors? He then acts all high and mighty only to prove that people can get hurt that way. In the end he does the right thing... sort of.
The point I am making is that the plot itself, while it might seem realistic enough, did not make me empathize with any of the characters nor did it teach me something useful about the world. In the end, it felt like a pointless movie.