Rrrrr, Arrrrr, Hhhrrrrg; can't choose between camp and melodrama. Ornery Granddaddy Clint pulls the neighborhood kids around the block in a little red wagon. They can't act, but then the writer can't write either, so let's just ignore all that, relax and watch the old guy be a violent badass while simultaneously learning how to be sweet. Aww. Oh hey look, I hired this girl to recite wikipedia's article on the Hmong for you. Don't you feel cultured (and manly) now? GRRRR!

Eastwood's performance is really the only good thing about this movie, and eventually even his character gets more annoying than entertaining.

Liked it well enough I guess. The credits were my favorite part. Ha.

I'm giving this a fairly generous score because I think that under the surface, Eastwood is hinting at some interesting ideas about his character's redemption. Unfortunately, Eastwood seems determined to smother and subvert these interesting themes with audience-pleasing, familiar melodramatic devices and ostentatious one-liners. Furthermore, the way race is handled throughout the film, while well-meaning, is quite bothersome to me, and I don't think it's going to age very well.

Pretty weak, clichéd, bluntly made love story to conservative right-wing American values. This is not art, it is a message movie, and the message is pretty obvious.

Funny in kind a way. Can make you cry.

A tad predictable, but Eastwood makes for an enjoyable grumpy old man. Overall a nice and very watchable film.