If you like emotional self-flagellation, you'll love this movie

Rating: 4/10 (19 April 2005)

Throughout his career Clint Eastwood's roles have walked a fine like between being morally right and being morally wrong. In this movie he once again falls down on the wrong side of that line with a resounding "thud". His character's decisions are ones that no human has a right to make. I can say no more about this particular movie, but if his movie career is examined from the very beginning, we see him glory in violence and killing on manufactured and contrived pretexts, and he goes on. It is no exaggeration to say that his influence on western civilization has been very great; it has also been very unfortunate. If the world was full of Clint Eastwoods, we'd be in a lot of trouble.