Gran Torino

You have to be patient with this movie. You cannot be like the main character and rush to judgement. If you can do those things you are in store for a delicious, tidy, satisfying ending.

Clint Eastwood, in his 66th screen appearance over the 6 decades he has been working, does his usual accomplished job of acting. He also directed and produced this film. I've yet to see anything he has done which I don't like. Eastwood makes good choices.

With a group of relative unknowns, Eastwood tells a story vaguely familiar to all of us, and painfully real to certain segments of society.

If you enjoy a fairly slow but methodical character-development drama, you may like this one. If you can sit through the main character's constant racist dialogue, you may see how it evolves. There are life lessons to be learned by young and old here. Lessons for natives and those born elsewhere too.

Watch this with someone who WAS born outside the United States and see how they react.