One of the worst movies i've seen lately

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2009)

How can an awful movie like this one get so many good votes? Now that i think about it, there was nothing i could appreciate about this movie. Not only it was boring as hell but also quite cliché. The horrible acting of those teenagers made it rather hard to watch sometimes, so i just had to look away from the screen. The young boy who plays Thao really needs to learn to act and speak better (i couldn't understand most of the things he'd say). Also Mr. Eastwood's attempt at trying to be funny was pathetic i thought. The scene at the barber shop where Mr. Kowalski (Eastwood) is trying to man up Thao was supposed to be funny or at least make me smile but instead it was really lame and it failed to do any of that. This movie could have been a bit better if Eastwood had picked a better cast of actors and not just some kids who know nothing about acting. On some scenes, like the one where Thao's cousin and his gang beat up Thao or the scene where Mr. Kowalski beats up the fat guy from the gang, the violence looks completely fake. Overall the movie was very amateurish and a waste of time and money. I didn't expect much from it but I'm still surprised of how bad it was.