Even though he's old and retired, somehow Clint Eastwood is still this incredible badass. His character is this old Korean war vet that just wants people to stop annoying him. Basically, an all American goodfellow living in the burbs.
But his neighborhood is changing, and lots of poor minorities and weird looking asian people are moving in, turning his hometown into a slummy gang ridden place. Nigger gangs, gook gangs in ricers, mexicans, shitty white kids with giant T-shirts, the works. Particularly unappealing to him is the Hmong family living next door, which he finds to be brunt, dirty, and spineless. But one day, some asian punks start messing with the Hmongs and the story escalates into a series of beatdowns and skirmishes with the gangsters.
As you would expect, Clint Eastwood is the main attraction. His character is old and snappy and has incredibly racist lines, which portray him not as a biggot but simply as 1950's old fashioned. Everyone and everything pisses him off, especially the riceball gangsters, which remind him of the people he killed in Korea. Because of the gratuitous racism and the negative portrayal of minorities in Gran Torino, it is easy to label this a racist movie. Reviewers and journalists saying that are simply whining, as I found this movie to be very ethnically accurate. Yes, just because you're a minority does not mean you are incapable of doing bad things. And no, just because Clint Eastwood comes to the rescue does not vouch for the superiority of whites. In the story, white people and asian people are juxtaposed and and then summarily criticized for being stupid.
A retired Clint Eastwood helps some asian kids escape gang violence and a Ford car is involved.
Rating: 75%
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CAN IT, ZIPPERHEAD.
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