A masterpiece! Stunning Grace and Love from cranky old coot Clint Eastwood. A miracle!

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2005)

This is truly an amazing film. I'd read that it was a masterpiece. That can be an ominous sign, however. You know, one of those dim, fuzzy, dark and depressing movies that critics shove down our throats because watching them will somehow make us more spiritual. Like a 'Watch it and shut up. It's good for you' kind of thing. This was completely different, and wonderfully so. I loved this movie, and so will you.
'Million Dollar baby' IS a masterpiece, but thank God it is also NOT dim or down, and at no moment whatsoever was it in the least 'arty' or 'significant' at all. It is an amazing work of stunning grace and power. It is radiant with Life,Love--- and a shockingly high level of genuine humanity. And to think all of this came from that cranky old coot Clint Eastwood! Sorry,Clint, but you have shown your heart, and your vision, and it is immense. Too late! You will forever be known as a master artist, and a first class human being. I gave this a 10 out of 10, because 'these don't go to eleven'.