Dirty Harry grows up

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2010)

If you sort of follow the Clint Eastwood characters through the early Westerns, the Dirty Harry movies, Heartbreak Ridge, and Space Cowboys, this one completes the natural development. Blunt but gruffly caring, Eastwood is one persona I never mind seeing trotted out. Here he plays a grandfather and widower with a secret but serious medical condition who gets in a back and forth with a nasty Korean gang. Along the way he first offends and then befriends the Korean family next door, the children "Toad" and "Sue" being particularly exquisitely played, they in part make this movie. Clint's strategy for terminating the gang is unusual but logical in retrospect. I thought the final wrap on this movie could have been done a little better, otherwise it is top grade cinema.