GRAN TORINO

“Get off of my lawn!” Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) rasps as he points his rifle at a bunch of Hmong gangbangers who were busy pummeling his teenage neighbor.  Gran Torino is a vehicle for Clint Eastwood to play a retired Ford autoworker who finds himself a relic of a vanished world.  His Polish neighborhood is now populated by immigrants.  His priest is a third of his age.  His wife is dead.  He’s mocked by his family.  He growls alot.  But circumstances take this aloof retiree into a Twilight Zone of violence.  You’ll be surprised at the humor in this movie.  And you’ll also be touched by Eastwood’s message about families.  GRADE: B+

2 thoughts on “GRAN TORINO

  1. Patti Abbott

    Maybe it’s because I live in Detroit, but I’ve been putting this one off. But it sounds like I should see it.

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