In case there is any doubt in people’s minds, I love Clint Eastwood. This includes him as both an actor and as a director. Last year's “Gran Torino” was a great vehicle for the man. He played Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran, recently widowed, who doesn’t like his Asian neighbors (and the whole kid-trying-to-steal-his-1972-Ford-Gran-Torino doesn’t help matters). Walt then goes on to teach the young man the error of his ways and actually gets involved with gangs and such. Clint Eastwood is the best part of the entire movie. He is a great actor and every scene with him is fantastic. He threatens people with guns and growls from his front porch. It is pretty great. The man just has unbelievable screen presence...as he has had for about 50 or so years now. The Asian actors on the other hand can’t really act, but in their defense: for almost all of them this was their first movie. The writing in places gets a bit sketchy, but overall a very good movie...I thought Clint Eastwood’s other 2008 movie “Changeling,” with Angelina Jolie, was the better movie (just a bit too long and a little slow at parts). The ending to the movie is great...without it the movie would have basically had no point. So everyone should rent it...it's only a dollar at the Redbox at Hannaford so there really is no excuse not to...and chances are "Gran Torino" is better than whatever movie you were planning on renting in the first place. And if you ever wanted to hear Clint Eastwood sing (don't anyone try to deny it)...then this is the movie for you...Mr. Eastwood does so during the ending credits.
-Joseph Sbrilli
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