May 02, 2009 06:23 AM
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(Updated May 02, 2009 10:30 PM)
Dirty Harry fame of old, Clint Eastwood, has definitely become a much better director as he ages more. Funny enough he has won 2 Oscars for direction but never as an actor, weird are the ways and actions of Academy.
Initial scenes are bound to raise some heckles with some racial utterances, however how he actually champions the cause of his neighbour is to be viewed.
The movie is shot in Michigan, a state in very hard times now because of Detroit fall from grace.
Clint portrays a very dis-illusioned and dis-gruntled Korean war widowed veteran who sips beer from his porch all day and carefully tends to his lawn. He does not have any decent relationship with his 2 grown up sons either. Meanwhile, his Hmong neighbours, do not like a white man besides them. Things get to a head when his car(a 1972 vintage) is un-successfully tried to be stolen by the neighbour's son.
How he mentors the neighbour's son, protects him from the gang bangers in his neighbourhood and how he ensures the gangsters get the just reward for playing with the lives of ordinary people forms the crux of the movie.
Clint even sings a few lines of the fantastic title song.
Some film lines are pretty good to hear like:
"Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while that you shouldn't have messed with? That's me."
Get off my lawn with a gun in his hand
The ending of the movie is a surprise knowing the typical gun slingling and crash bang antics of his earlier movies.
