GRAN TORINO (2008)

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"Most DEFINITELY GO SEE THIS MOVIE! "

Great movie

This is a great movie. I don't normally write a lot of reviews on here, but this is vintage Clint Eastwood. You could call the look on his face the scowl of staring at the sun, or not following your mother's advice. I call it classic Clint Eastwood. These are the type of no-nonsense mannerisms that made Clint Eastwood a star, from his cowboy and western days, to his Dirty Harry and Magnum Force days. If you want to see Clint be a "man's man",although a racist one, this is a great movie.

He plays Walt Kowalski, a Michigan bigot who worked for The Ford Motor Company for 40 years without accepting the people of various colors and nationalities around him on the assembly line.

Walt is reasonably anxious about the incursion of gangs into his once-safe neighborhood and unreasonably angry about his next-door neighbors, a friendly Hmong family that has relocated through the Lutheran Church. We never find out why Walt's a bigot - perhaps because he killed-in his words- "gooks" in the Korean War, though that wouldn't explain his attitude toward all minorities.

For nearly 50 years, Walt has harbored horrible, unexpressed memories of his dark deeds in Korea. So when young Sue Lor (Ahney Her), the young Hmong girl next door gets harassed by black thugs, a mixture of guilt and ingrained chivalry toward women prompts Walt to protect her.

Then her younger brother, Thao (Bee Vang), tries to steal Walt's prized 1972 Gran Torino as part of a gang initiation; Walt's enraged but realizes this fatherless kid could become a decent man, if he had a role model. Soon enough, Walt buys Thao a tool belt, finds him a job at a construction site, and teaches him how to swear and insult others' ancestors.

DEFINITELY GO SEE THIS MOVIE!