Clint Eastwood was just named best actor (that's right, I said "actor," not " director" ) by the National Board of Review for his role in Gran Torino, which, yes, he did also direct. And, judging by the trailer, it's what he was working on when he should have been perfecting Changeling, because this one's going to be the one he shines with this year, acting- and directing-wise.
According to the trailer, here's what we have: Eastwood plays a curmudgeonly old man. He's cranky and he drives a Gran Torino. Oh, and his kids want him to move into a retirement home, so he kicks them out of his house on his birthday. He's also a racist. And he pushes a priest. And then he accidentally saves one of his Chinese neighbors and ends up their hero. And then he takes on gang warfare in the neighborhood. But not in the sappy, after-school-special way that most movies would have someone take on gang warfare in their neighborhood. This is freaking Dirty Harry, after all. If he's going down, he's taking the gangs down with him.
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Reviews By People Who've Actually Seen It:
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