Clint Eastwood is great, the movie is lame

Rating: 5/10 (1 January 2009)

Clint Eastwood has really gone off the deep end with this quasi-moral story featuring a pretty decent turn from Eastwood. The Asian actor who plays Thao, however is beyond bad, its almost laughable. The story is completely non-existent, and nothing happens for about the first 90 minutes. There are so many cliché and unoriginal moments, its almost perplexing how Eastwood ever went from Million Dollar Baby to this crap.
Sometimes sappy, sometimes boring, sometimes unwatchable, it had very few moments of clarity or anything that made sense. Next time, Clint, get another screenwriter, the constant racist slurs got tired, fast, and the rest of the exchanges were some of the worst I've ever come across in my life. I expected a lot better. A WHOLE lot better.