This film features the return of Eastwood as a grumpy old-man who hates anybody around him and life gets worse for him as a family of Koreans move in next door. The cousin of the family is part of one of the street gangs that go and torment the family most especially the young son Toan.Throughout the movie Eastwood takes a liking to the family and helps them against the street gangs. This film would have been nothing without Eastwood, his acting was funny, great, and it hit a little too close to home, especially when i visit my grandfather. Eastwood was the reason this movie is getting so much exposure, he acts like the tough old bad guy that we remembered and loved. However, in this film Eastwood is the only good thing other than that: the casting and acting is horrible, and they keep every scene with Eastwood.The whole film i was laughing cause I myself can be racist at some points and everything Eastwood said was racist, sometimes things I haven't even heard of. The film will go down in history cause many have said this will be his last film if so it was a great career and it was a great movie to end on. A well deserved 10 out of 10.
Media > Movies > 2009 > Gran Torino > All Reviews
Gran Torino - 5 July 2009
overall: 10
One of the best movies i have seen in a while - 19 June 2009
overall: 10
Plot:
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a retired Polish American Ford factory worker and Korean War veteran, haunted by memories of war. He lives with his Labrador Retriever, Daisy, in a Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood, formerly populated by other hard-working American families, now dominated by poor Asian immigrants. The movie begins, Walt attending his wife's funeral, bristling at the shallow eulogy of young Father Janovich (Christopher Carley), and his two sons, Mitch (Brian Haley) and Steve (Brian Howe) with their families, who act rude and self-absorbed. Similarly, his sons see him as a bitter old miser, stuck in the '50's, avoiding him almost entirely.
Walt's teenage Hmong neighbors, a shy Thao (Bee Vang) and his feisty sister Sue (Ahney Her), live with their widowed mother and grandmother. A Hmong gang, led by Thao's cousin Spider (Doua Moua), persuades Thao to join them. He declines, but the gang persists and he finally caves. Thao's initiation: steal Walt's prized car, a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport. Walt interrupts the auto theft with his military-issue M1 Garand rifle, forcing Thao to flee. Later, Spider and his gang return, dragging Thao off his porch to beat him. His family tries to fend them off; the conflict ends when Walt threatens the gang members with his M1, and orders them away. The Vang Lors thank Walt, and when the neighborhood hears of the act, they reward Walt with gifts on his porch. Thao admits trying to steal Walt's Gran Torino. Walt isn't pleased, wanting only to be left alone.
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I rented this movie on Pay-Per-View a few weeks back, if you have not yet seen this movie, i definitely recommend you go out and rent it! It is by far an overall great movie that anyone of any age would enjoy
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Tusserte - 7/5/2009 (reply)
I agree with your review; Clint Eastwood really was the perfect actor for that role.