A little bit overrated

To be honest, from all the recent directing efforts by Clint Eastwood, it must be easily the most overrated one. I mean, it is not that it was a bad movie, it was actually pretty good but I seriously failed to see what was so great about it. I know everybody says this flick is awesome and it is even in the IMDB Top 250 but, personally, I thought it was actually seriously overrated. The only reason I can think of is that it is because Clint Eastwood was in it and that's why everybody was raving about it. I'll give you that, Eastwood was really good and displayed the same charisma he used to have in those Spaghetti Westerns he used to make in the good old days. Unfortunately, the movie didn't have much else to offer, in my opinion. Indeed, the other characters were barely developed and the story would have been more interesting if Eastwood's character would have been a really awful racist *sshole. The guy basically pretends all the way to be a dick but he is in fact actually a rather nice fellow deep inside (rather mushy if you ask me). To conclude, I have to admit, I did like this flick, absolutely, but considering it as one of the best movies directed by and starring Eastwood? no way. Still, it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Clint Eastwood's work.

7/10