The following is free of spoilers.
Clint Eastwood’s (in every sense as director, producer and lead actor) Gran Torino is simply excellent. I wish he’d act in more films these days.
He plays Walt, a Korean-war veteran who is openly unaccepting of a neighbourhood largely taken over by Asian immigrants and non-caucasians.
We see him progress from ignorance, surely using every racist Asian term known to man, to familiarity and understanding and finally to acceptance and genuine friendship with his Hmong neighbours. He even gets to kick some ass along the way.
HMR: 5/5
