Another minority opinion from me

Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2009)

If you combined the very worst qualities of Archie Bunker and Al Bundy, he still would be a better person than Walt Kowalsky.
That is how I feel about Clint Eastward's character in Gran Torino.
Clint portrays a bigot without one real likable characteristic.
If this were a comedy like 'All In The Family' or 'Married With Children', I could have at least had a few laughs. GRAN TORINO purports to be a serious drama.
What this film has is about every cliché imaginable.
including this one.
SPOILER ALERT
In the tradition of older Warner Bothers films where the star dies a a martyr's death,he is spread out on the lawn as if crucified.
This however is not the ending one,more clichés follow & many before.
Scenes in this movie have been done so many times over the years,it almost is a comedy.
Clint does his usual fine direction in the awful script. The acting by mostly actors from Television or in debut performances are all what you expect. The production credits are good as well.
Bee Vang is quite good in his first role as the put upon teen ager. Christopher Corley in his first major film role is the kindly likable priest, Combine Pat O'Brien & Bing Crosby priestly roles. He is the only really likable character besides Bee's Thao.
There are nasty villains. we have seen them too many times by now.
Now one more thing, Whats the deal with this auto. I never was able to figure out peoples desires and love for cars. Yes, when I drove I liked & took good care of my cars, They were expensive even then so you were supposed to take good care of them.
BIG DEAL.
In closing, I now can see why this movie was so overlooked during award season, It deserved NONE.
Ratings: ** (out of 4) 64 points (out of 100) IMDb 5 (out of 10)