Cliché-packed amateur production

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2010)

I never cease to be amazed at how easily manipulated the American public can be: witness the rave reviews and awards lavished on Eastwood-directed movies: that pretentious excuse for a Western, "Unforgiven," got the Oscar for Best Picture for Goodness' sake! As for MDB, its plot is full of clichés and inconsistencies that leave thinking viewers frustrated. (Judging from some of the reviews on this site it seems that I'm not the only one to have been mostly underwhelmed by this Eastwood amateurish confection.) After the first 15 minutes of listening to Morgan Freeman's sappy voice-over comments I felt like beating up Walter Brennan. The best I can say about this movie is that Clint Eastwood gives his best performance since "Revenge of the Creature."