Worst film I've seen for years, well done Clint!

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2014)

I have never written a film review before but this film urged me during the credits to find my laptop and begin my review. Firstly the main character of Walt obviously played by our ageing anti-hero Clint Eastwood is an awful representation of a human being. The film starts with the funeral of Walts wife, and he is then joined by is equally loathsome family. Walt is a retired Korean veteran who has old fashioned beliefs and strong moral codes, however is family are a disgusting portrayal of the kind of family Walt would have raised. So for me this makes no sense whatsoever, he's bitter and hates the world. Yet later in the film talks about the love of his wife, which changed his life, so why does a man with so much love in his life have such an hatred for everything?! ..Anyway back to the funeral; so on one hand Walt hates everyone yet there's a packed church for his wife??! If this evil hate filled man had anyway influenced this woman's life, she'd be just as miserable as he was and NO ONE would be attending the funeral family or otherwise. Now let's move onto the main ridiculous plot of the this farcical film. A family of Hmong (Koreans) live next door and of course Walt hates them as he does everyone. (I don't know how he gets up in the morning or for what purpose other than to hate on life). One member of this family Thao a young teenager who is also unable to speak or act for most of the film. Thao has a cousin who is part of a Gang of Four who drive round not particularly doing anything other than trying to recruit Thao who is by all accounts useless. The gang try and recruit him to steal Walts car (the Gran Torino) which fails and is caught by Walt. The pair then later build up a relationship over the next long 80 or so minutes with ridiculous growling by Clint at scenes with his family and other awful situations where the relationship grows between the old Man and the Young teenager. When I woke up the gangs were back and were doubting a cigarette on Thao's face just because he got a job on a construction site!!! Madness. This results in our hate filled Walt going to the gangs hideout and beating up one of them, not thinking they'd come back for him. His this guy out of his mind, he's a 70 something year old man who lives alone with a rifle, yeah Clint there petrified! Meanwhile the gang have access to semi automatic weapons and out number him 10-1, in reality they'd have smashed his house up and burnt it to the ground or worse just shot him in the street. I mean come on guys there either a "gang" we're trying to portray as ruthless thugs or are they supposed to be off a Broadway musical? The film gets worse and worse with the final scene where Walt lets himself get murdered by the gang with his genius plan that they'll all be sent to prison!! HAHAHA don't make me laugh does he really believe that 1. The community will give statements and follow this through to court even though they terrorise the neighbourhood and 2. That every member of the gang will be convicted when he's turned up at their house and used threatening behaviour to make them believe he was going to pull out a gun. 3. Finally if they were convicted surely they have connections or family other than the 4 of them to go after Thao and the witnesses. In summary loads and loads of plot holes, ridiculous acting but I have got to give credit where it's due, for someone to take a decent idea for a movie and produce this load of tripe then bravo Clint you truly are a master time thief!!!