Academy Award intentions clear

Rating: 5/10 (15 April 2006)

Clint Eastwood obviously went all out for the big award. He appealed to the slightly conservative voting audience by merely notching up the favourite controversial clichés. He starts with the old favourite feminism, then moves on to the "Little guy against incredible odds". Then to appeal to the racial equality vote Morgan Freeman (who seems to have made a knack of choosing interesting films for quite some time now) plays the wise sidekick who is much more troubled and complex than we are lead to believe. Then just when u thought the clichés would end, we have the pained father figure with children troubles and euthanasia. I cant see how anyone would bet against it.