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 Gut wrenching and Incredible Nov 15, 2009
All the intellectual reviews and evaluations of this film are fine, but what I know is that I am still feeling this movie in my gut long after I watched it. Cut my male macho bulls*** right off at the knees. Awesome film making, incredible performance by an actor and director at the epitome of his craft.Gran Torino engaged me emotionally is ways I did not expect, and I was the biggest guy in the room. Buy it.
 Good eye opener. Nov 13, 2009
Nice to see how Clint's character changed his tune after getting to know the neighbors. Its an eye opener on the reality of gang violence too. The movie was sad though as he made the ultimate sacrifice to save the kids and teach them to make the right choices. Clint Eastwood was great.
great movie Nov 11, 2009
So,this is Clint Eastwood's last movie as an actor.He did a very good job in closing out a wonderful career.The movie made me angry about the street gang he takes on and it shows how our youth today are destroying their lives.His character is one person who is not afraid to back down from a threat.I did see some Dirty Harry in the movie.The trailer to the movie was great.Although this is his last movie as an actor and now he is going behind the camera I will always be a Clint Eastwood fan.
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Funny, Powerful & Its a Work of Art. Nov 09, 2009
Gran Torino straight up shows how pathetic and ignorant gangs really are. Its not about the car in this movie, but the special features on this DVD about cars just ruins the whole message in Gran Torino. Although Clint Eastwood was good in the special features, its just the other actor's interviews in Special Features that made it seem like they were only interested in the car, just like how Walter's family in the movie were kinda acting. Thats the only problem I had with this. Besides the dumbed down special features, I thought Gran Torino was one of Clint Eastwood's best movies.
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is now an old retired Polish American Ford factory worker and Korean War veteran. He lives in Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood with his dog, Daisy. He does not get very long with the neighborhood very well and thinks the whole town is overrated and calls them a bunch of names throughout the film, who can blame him. I would too if I was living in that type of neighborhood. Because it pisses you off. Walter definitely says some things in this movie about some people's behavior that is actually true in the real world. For example, some families really do get greedy and only care about the materials the dead ones left over for them. Thats one true example. The other example are the gangs roaming around the neighborhood that can piss someone off like Walt Kowalski. Some say that this movie was racist. Well not really, there are a few racist jokes that Clint Eastwood made throughout this movie, but they were quite hilarious. Although most of the time I figured Clint Eastwood's new alter ego character, Walter was just being his honest self in Gran Torino. Thats one thing I actually admired so much and that was Walter's brutal honesty in this film.
We go into another character's story, Thao Vang Lor, or Toad (Walt likes to keep calling Thao, Toad). We see him walking on the sidewalk while an asian gang inside their car pokes fun at Thao. Another asian gang inside another car sees what is going on and buzzes off the gang who was poking at Thao. This gang that helped Thao wants him to come join them, but Thao just walks away and goes back to his house with his book that he was reading along the way. There ends up being a big pile of gangs fighting each other and over Thao at night at the door next to Walt Kowalski's house, then Walt orders them to get off his lawn threatening the pile of gangs with a shotgun and saves Thao and his family's lives.
The next morning Thao's family is now giving Walter a bunch of food on his footsteps at the porch outside his house, although Walter gets annoyed with the whole thing and orders them to go back home with there food.
We now witness a new character in this movie. Thao's older sister, Sue Lor. She is the first woman to befriends with Walt Kowalski in this film. Sue is very intelligent and street wise, although makes an mistake by going out on a date with some wuss that leads them into a corner sidewalk with a gang that eventually tries to assult Sue and attacks her date. That is when Walter comes in and saves the day, but tells Sue's date to scram for being a wuss. Then tells the gang to take care.
Later Walter finally forgives Thao for trying to steal his Gran Torino car when Thao apologizes and tells Walt the real story why he was stealing the car. Then is required to work for Walt about a week to make up his apologies. A week after that, Walter finds Thao a job and is a success, but it seems the gang is now pressuring on Thao. Because Thao is taking responsibility for himself and it gives a bad look for the asian gang. This is a sad thing that is still actually going on in this world today.
after the fight with the gang, Thao goes back to Walt's garage and tries to hide what has happened from Walt, but Walt finds out what happened by looking at the burnt scar on Thao's face from a asian member who used a light-up cigerate to stab Thao's face with. Walt gets all pissed about it, then goes back to the same gang member to beat him up and threatens him with a pistol to stay away from Thao because he has nothing to do with the gang.
Apparently the fight does not end, it gets worse. But something heroric happens in this movie and I don't want to give anymore detail after that. Because what Walt Kowalski does is incredible near the end and inspiring.
Gran Torino is an amazing movie. Its one of those art movies you don't see anymore. What I love about this movie is how honest it is about some of the reality thats happening in this world. Its an refreshing movie and original half drama/half comedy film with some good hints about real problems some people really do have in this world today throughout this movie.
highly recommended!
Full 5 stars.
Very enjoyable movie! Nov 05, 2009
I really enjoyed this movie, even though it was difficult at some points to really immerse myself into the story because the acting of Hmong kids was not convincing...I am referring to Sue and Thao....would have been a perfect 5 stars if the acting was good. :-(
Aside from that a very entertaining movie with a lot of expletives and racist comments, but all the same very humorous.
Would recommend to those not offended by off color, racey (and I do mean RACEy) humor.
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