Not what I expected

Rating: 5/10 (19 June 2009)

I didn't read reviews but did see that it got very high score. That said, I expected this movie to be very good.
After 2 hours of watching it I am here to say that my expectations were not met. I didn't find much humor in it nor did I find it to be very believable.
In terms of acting, Clint Eastwood does a very good job portraying Walt Kowalski, a man who's worked all his life at Ford factory building cars and now he is retired and he is one angry man; angry at life, angry at his kids and grandkids, angry at the next door neighbors, and even angry at the priest not to mention prejudice against every other race and religion.
I kept watching it and thinking where is this going? I didn't even follow why Thao's cousin shot at his house and not Walts? After all, Walt was the one who beat up one of the gang members. I was waiting to see the climax and hoped that he would just blast them all at the end but it took a different route. I don't believe it for a moment that a man who was a bigot and a racist all his life, hated blacks, asians, etc., would all of a sudden give his life away for a kid whom he barely knows. Seriously, the entire span of the film goes for maybe 2 to 3 weeks. Yet, in his will he gives his house to church, and his Gran Turino to the kid?