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Enjoyable viewing but you need to be in the mood for it. 2010-03-10

Reviewer: J. Watson

This movie deals with some sensitive issues and is not just a good-hearted movie. It is most definitely a drama with some quirky humor in it. While watching the movie, we used some of the issues tackled in the movie to open some dialogue. It is something that we will watch multiple times.

Clint vs the gangbangers 2010-03-10

Reviewer: C. Rocklein

Wow, this was a great flick with a cool ending that I didn't see coming. This movie had a lot of heart. Age appropriate for Clint, but with nuts of steel. A perfect vehicle.

Eastwood fighting racism 2010-03-04

Reviewer: Theodor Black

I don't know why but I am so happy Clint Eastwood has been acting in, directing, editing etc. movies that humanize asian people. Being half asian and seeing this movie and Letters from Iwo Jima I'm really liking what Clint is doing. Aside from the humanizing asians in america, this movie was brilliant. Thank you Clint. You rock! You always have.

Exemplary 2010-02-27

Reviewer: C. DeGetmon

Clint Eastwood continues to demonstrate he is a master film maker. Grand Torino is a film about redemption and loss, it is about a man who loses himself and finds himself while staying true to his inner compass without compromise. Beneath the gruff exterior is man with a heart of gold, even if he has little sensitivity for expressing himself.

Eastwood has created a character of the American male in its fullness if not its perfection.

In Grand Torino we find an ageing man still living in the same neighborhood of his youth while on its downward slide into crime, gang takeovers, and ethnic cultural shifts of the neighborhood.

Eastwood - the `loner' - refuses to leave a neighborhood that has totally transformed itself culturally leaving him as the only `white' guy left; nevertheless he finds himself developing a friendship with a young Vietnamese lad who is being intimidated to join a gang.

Eastwood decides to take on the intimidation to protect the family who lives next to him, and the story weaves its magic by the developing relationship between Eastwood and the ethnic Vietnamese family who he adopts as his proxy family; the backdrop also tells a tale of the estranged relationship he has to his own family as a juxtaposition to his adopted family.

The character development is one of the exemplary nuances of the film. In Eastwood we see the same themes repeated in our own ethnic cultural makeup of the diminished concern this culture hold for its elders.

In my view, Eastwood delivers an Oscar worthy performance. The films climax reaches its conclusion by delivering a clever twist in fortunes. Rather than tell you how it turns out, rest assured poetic justice takes its conclusion in the only direction worthy of the themes of the film. The gang situation is resolved heroically in a fashion one could not predict; and Eastwood is a protagonist worthy of a character misunderstood yet honorable in a way that touches the root and core or our humanity.

Great film worthy of your time.

Eastwood is one of the Greatest 2010-02-24

Reviewer: Michael J. Gordon

Clint Eastwood directs and takes the lead in this epic story of the diverse cultural mix that our society is made up of today. The movie has plent of gritty Eastwood humour but is hard hitting and serious at the same time. This is a must see.