A middling film that ultimately fails.

Rating: 5/10 (23 November 2015)

Eastwood plays a racist curmudgeon.Therefore we know he will come round eventually.It's the first law of screenplays in Hollywood. Eastwood coughs up blood.Ditto.Second law.He's doomed! His family despair of him and his grandchildren behave badly at the funeral of his wife,their own grandmother.Their unlikely behaviour doesn't improve so they're due retribution. The gangs are cartoon like.They make the grumbling curmudgeon look angelic by comparison.They too are heading for a fall. The kooky,cute girl wins him round and he saves her from the clutches of bad cousin.This will not end well. He sacrifices himself,knowing,somehow, they would all shoot him(many,many times) through their bedroom windows,resulting in their arrests.Massive amounts of pork are consumed by the neighbours who leave most of it with the curmudgeon.His reactions are at least rather funny.
A film that is predictable and in part entertaining but if only they had stripped it of certain scenes and the ludicrous ending.Hollywood seems to have no confidence in its audience.