Very Good Movie

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2005)

I have always liked Clint Eastwood. I grew up as a kid watching his so called Western Spaghetti series and then onto the Dirty Harry series. I only relished that this man could act in the movie, 'Bridges of Madison County'. Well, he was a good actor but before that I was more interested in his perfectly delivered punchlines and him grounding bad guys to the ground. 'Million Dollar Baby' is literally about two old men in their twilight years - Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman and the relationship between them, so often revealed by their ruthless dry humour, tells the story of the bond of friendship.... and NEED for each other. Hilary Swank is more of an intrusion into their perfectly balanced world of calm and routine. The whole story takes on an incredible 'timeline' of a time within a time - the superimposition of pace and excitement of Hilary Swank and the fights onto the mundane and dull backdrop of Eastwood's gym. A really fantastic movie. A movie about unusual courage. A movie about honour and respect. And above all, a movie about love.