Eastwood at his finest.

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2011)

When I was going to the movies one Saturday afternoon, my birthday was coming up and my mother took me and my sister out to see Gran Torino because I really enjoyed and liked Clint Eastwood's movies. Once I was inside the movie theater getting popcorn, I started to wondered if this movie would either make Eastwood's last movie as a actor good or horrible. I had to see what happened and I was impressed. Clint Eastwood directed and stars in Gran Torino, a drama that focuses on a relationship between a racist Korean War veteran and his new neighbor, a Hmong immigrant. Eastwood may look old in this picture, but that doesn't means he is not bad. One night, Eastwood's character, Walt Kowalski, is alarmed when a intruder breaks into his garage. The intruder appears to be his Hmong neighbor, played by Bee Vang. He was ordered to steal Walt's 1972 Gran Torino because an Hmong gang told him to do it. Soon enough, the 1972 prized Gran Torino brings the Hmong neighbor, Thao and Walt together. Watching Gran Torino, I suddenly noticed that Eastwood's direction is the same thing as what he does in his 2004 Best Picture winner, Million Dollar Baby. The connection is that the relationship between different characters are focus on like we are seeing in his point of view. As for Eastwood, he has a great performance as Walt Kowalski. So it all adds up that Gran Torino is a modern update of Eastwood's stardom and that this film stays on that level all the time throughout. ★★★★ 4 stars.