We all love Clint Eastwood but can we PLEASE be honest and admit he made a bad movie!?

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2009)

I can't understand WHY so many reviews on here are just kissing Clint Eastwoods ass. There's no question Clint Eastwood is a brilliant actor and director. I went into this film expecting nothing less quality than "Million Dollar Baby", "Mystic River" and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". But this movie did NOT live up to any of those for a number of reasons.
I'll keep my review short but anyone with an objective mind has to be able to agree that many scenes and lines in this script were laughable. It says a lot when more than 1/2 the movie theater was laughing throughout the movie. Casting choices were no better. The priest was AWFUL. i appreciate Eastwood wanting to cast no names, and in the case of the the two Hmong children, locals as well who were starring in their first feature film. Unfortunately this backfired big time. They were not believable and their acting in many scenes was downright awful.
I appreciate the story they were trying to tell and I have no problem with the language but we all need to admit when a great filmmaker makes a poor film.