Movie Reviews of Gran Torino
- Gran Torino: Walt Kowalski is a veteran living in a ever changing world and is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his prejudices gain from a wartime past. One of Clint Eastwoods best performances as a director and an actor.
- Gran Torino carries on in the tradition of other Clint Eastwood directed films, providing an intimate story of a troubled man. In Gran Torino, Eastwood stars as a recent widower whose lifetime city home is now entrenched with racial gangs and regular assaults on the widower's sensibilities and standards, as the curmudgeon imparts harsh disappointment on his children and grandchildren, neighbors, and his wife's priest. Although his young Hamong neighbor attempts to steal his Gran Torino hotrod as part of a gang initiation, Eastwood realizes the teen is struggling to stay decent in a world that is pressuring him to succumb to gang violence. The film showcases the widower's journey to protect himself and other innocents from the demons in the world, demons we learn Eastwood is harboring in memories of his wartime in Korea. The themes of honor, integrity and decency are explored in Gran Torino, offering a heart-wrenching tale of what makes a community and a family, and the sacrifice one must make whether for one's own redemption or that of the future. Gran Torino is a beautiful film, often with gritty but honest dialogue, tender moments of comic relief, edge of seat suspense, and cinematography that captures every the details of every wince of Eastwood's chiseled face. An essential film that won't disappoint.
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