The Mule (2018)
A 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel. (imdb)
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Nick Schenk
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Laurence Fishburne, Dianne Wiest, Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Clifton Collins Jr., Robert LaSardo, Noel Gugliemi, Michael Peña, Ignacio Serricchio, Taissa Farmiga
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The Mule belongs to 9 collections
1. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
2. Based On True Events (public: moderated by Spunkie - 8 stars)
3. Director/star combination (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
4. Old directors (70+) (public: moderated by von krogh - 3 stars)
5. Director at least 80 years old (public: moderated by djross)
6. Based on an article (public: moderated by dookobore)
7. The Best of 2018 (private: SageSledge)
8. 2019: Complete Watchlist (private: SageSledge)
9. 2019 (private: sproost)
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| Mar 21 |  |
guy piranha | 50 23% |
| Mar 21 |  |
muratkrks | 65 43% |
| Mar 21 |  |
adamj1982 | 30 5% |
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Good acting doesn't make up for being totally inept about all aspects of drugs , enforcement and criminal justice to the point it's almost satire. Distractedly absurd
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| Mar 21 | Iamdwg | 60 15% |
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| Mar 21 | The Hell | 70 10% |
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| Mar 21 |  |
E.C.R. | 65 61% |
| Mar 21 |  |
calinki | 65 23% |
| Mar 20 |  |
Skippey | 54 34% |
| Mar 20 |  |
cankutozturk | 75 46% |
| Mar 20 |  |
kubrickvari | 74 71% |
| Mar 20 |  |
donmezsefa | 60 39% |
| Mar 20 |  |
sproost | 60 41% |
| Mar 19 |  |
The Behzad | 65 2% |
| Mar 19 |  |
EmreZabun3 | 74 48% |
| Mar 19 |  |
KeanuGrieves | 63 25% |
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Eastwood's "grumpy old man who's mildly racist and can still lay some pipe" routine is really getting tiresome, and without that, there wouldn't be much of a movie.
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| Mar 19 |  |
schnofel | 50 37% |
| Mar 19 | Gossamer | 1 34% |
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| Mar 19 | Jorg | 60 27% |
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| Mar 19 |  |
HKi | 67 40% |
| Mar 19 |  |
BillyShears | 70 53% |
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“My 88 year old penis still has some fight in it. You will know my mule.” Eastwood looks like he is about to shatter at any second.
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| Mar 19 |  |
neurophate | 60 31% |
| Mar 17 | StaticSnow | 70 32% |
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| Mar 15 | judeclapton | 8 64% |
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| Mar 10 | Zyatkoff | 7 62% |
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| Mar 10 | LewisMeeking | 68 35% |
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It felt quite slow, the plot was kinda eh. The acting was poor at best and it just wasn't very good.
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| Mar 09 | jt94 | 60 28% |
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| Mar 06 | Coheed | 80 77% |
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| Mar 06 | bizort | 63 42% |
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Like all modern Clint Eastwood films, it's another "old people are valuable and young people are the ones screwing it all up" rhetoric-driven creation. The first and third acts elicit many eye rolls but the second act is legitimately great and fun to watch, with some great shots of the open road
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| Mar 02 |  |
Nathan | 71 51% |
| Mar 01 |  |
igormachete | 60 19% |
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garbo | 60 42% |
| Feb 26 |  |
Mjfa | 76 45% |
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coutinho | 80 70% |
| Feb 22 |  |
Leucò | 84 59% |
| Feb 22 |  |
vslkoca | 3 20% |
| Feb 22 | sandman248 | 80 58% |
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| Feb 20 |  |
Ytadel | 6 69% |
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Something akin to a more elderly, more mild-mannered Breaking Bad compressed into two hours. Despite a touch of violence and menace here and there it’s an overall relaxed and easygoing watch, anchored by Clint’s understated performance and lean, unshowy directing style. It kind of feels like it lets off the gas pedal right when it should step down at the end though; the dying old lady drama and kind of anticlimactic ending brought my score from a solid 7 down to a 6.
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| Feb 19 | henrybr | 76 54% |
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| Feb 17 | Edsep | 97 88% |
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| Feb 16 | bmmello | 79 56% |
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| Feb 16 | tsebben | 47 13% |
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| Feb 16 | mrhunter | 72 26% |
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| Feb 10 |  |
TreyAtwood | 70 44% |
| Feb 09 |  |
AAD101192 | 70 63% |
| Feb 06 | Sense1ess | 51 26% |
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| Feb 05 |  |
hulot | 60 59% |
| Feb 03 |  |
rafaelbastos | 88 68% |
| Feb 03 | wizard81 | 70 52% |
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| Feb 02 |  |
SageSledge | 90 77% |
| Feb 01 | Wieland | 70 63% |
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| Jan 31 |  |
loosecanons | 8 71% |
| Jan 30 | circleoffilm | 50 31% |
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| Jan 30 |  |
domv | 70 38% |
| Jan 30 |  |
nickv | 64 47% |
| Jan 29 | zevel6 | 46 20% |
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| Jan 29 |  |
rnest | 5 23% |
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So strange
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| Jan 29 | fireplacer | 68 37% |
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| Jan 27 | Midaso | 6 58% |
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| Jan 27 |  |
frs | 72 55% |
| Jan 24 | nuotio | 59 61% |
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It's a pleasure to see Clint on the big screen again and while he still has charisma, he is also not afraid to show himself as a fragile old man. Thematically, the film belongs to the same series as Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino before it, but it's also a simpler and lesser film. Clint is playing an older version of his usual character and at times both he and the film feel out of place and out of time; it's part of the charm but maybe it also signals an end of an era.
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| Jan 24 | lethias | 73 28% |
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The one thing I thoroughly enjoyed is how the protagonist moves in the flow of life. I don't mean the whole job over everything thing, but easiness of making decisions, having fun at little things and generally just being there, in the moment. But goddamn wife (Wiest) - how shockingly awful role that was, my god, it single handedly ruined the movie for me, hard to take it seriously. Ugh. I will never understand why they did that. Most of character dependance doesn't look natural. Odd goodbye.
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| Jan 22 | chiphall72 | 60 28% |
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| Jan 21 |  |
Leonardis | 80 40% |
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Suffers just a tad from slow pacing like most of Eastwood’s directed movies. I can’t say it isn’t a good movie though. It’s fairly unpredictable and he is pretty fun to listen to, especially when communicating with foreigners for some reason… good cinematography and directing and I also liked most of the acting. It may seem like some standard Clint Eastwood fair to some but it’s pretty well made as a whole.
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| Jan 21 |  |
avgcrtckr | 54 52% |
| Jan 21 |  |
filmaffinity | 71 83% |
| Jan 21 |  |
gert | 50 32% |
| Jan 20 |  |
KasperL | 50 31% |
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As long as the focus is on the drug running, this is just fine. The stuff with the familiy, though, is mostly lousy - especially Wiest's performance.
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| Jan 20 | nomesehos | 73 32% |
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| Jan 19 | luxcus | 82 50% |
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| Jan 18 | xombiemonkey | 7 56% |
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| Jan 17 | MzeeShikamu | 71 65% |
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| Jan 16 | GFoster | 66 69% |
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Dunstan-xxx | 69 66% |
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KMcNeil | 5 45% |
| Jan 15 | Holygrail2 | 78 19% |
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Almost shockingly disappointing. A screenplay and plot not remotely worthy of its strong cast, though the chemistry between the actors makes this at least a passable film, but it's hard not to notice that every female character is basically a cartoon, though Dianne Wiest tries her hardest.
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| Jan 15 |  |
paah | 70 58% |
| Jan 15 | Liamidas | 50 20% |
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| Jan 14 |  |
CMonster | 51 29% |
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I'm not sure if I should give this a thumbs up or thumbs down. I had a few good laughs, both intentional and unintentional, but aside from that the movie comes across a very bleh. Scenes just kinda happen. Character motivation is either nonsense or nonexistent. There was nothing that was painful or unwatchable, but nothing good either.
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| Jan 11 |  |
Nina_2014 | 79 53% |
| Jan 10 |  |
TheRealJ-Ro | 70 42% |
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This film has the distinction of being the last 2018 film I will watch prior to doling out my movie awards for the year. You'll be able to find those by searching Library Chess Productions on YouTube. As for the movie, Eastwood gives a solid performance in a movie that I'm sure aspired to be better than it wound up being. That's not a huge criticism, as I still enjoyed it, but I was left with a sense of "I'm not sure that's how the cartel works" by the end. A decent film to cap an average year.
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| Jan 10 |  |
Ofterdingen | 75 86% |
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Eastwood in relaxed Breaking Bad mode is a very, very good thing.
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| Jan 09 | prepwrestler | 90 96% |
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Another Clint Eastwood Classic. Must watch, hope this man lives forever, because he isn't done yet. A true master.
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| Jan 09 |  |
Bunken | 50 38% |
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drawingboard | 50 7% |
| Jan 07 |  |
tracy | 6 57% |
| Jan 07 |  |
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eats-almonds | 3 26% |
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skinnylegend | 53 31% |
| Jan 03 | Alto | 14 37% |
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| Jan 02 | braddad68 | 94 74% |
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For Clint Eastwood to direct and star in a movie at his age and have it be relevant is truly impressive! Great drama.
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| Jan 02 |  |
Seethruskin | 4 53% |
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Clint be fuckin in this picture
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| Jan 02 |  |
Darren | 70 53% |
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Checks all the boxes for an aged film director in that there’s a lot of discussion about their place in the world, what has passed them by socially/politically/personally, their loneliness and lastly and most importantly their horniness. Sad sad picture
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| Dec 31, 2018 |  |
tinythedogg | 80 82% |
| Dec 30, 2018 | Pxer | 61 66% |
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| Dec 30, 2018 |  |
Proximity | 55 37% |
| Dec 29, 2018 | bigboymood | 8 70% |
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| Dec 29, 2018 |  |
benjamins88 | 85 54% |
| Dec 28, 2018 |  |
PDM.82 | 67 28% |
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A crime film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. This is Eastwood's first starring role in a film he directed since 2008's 'Gran Torino'. Eastwood's charming but at times racist performance is really good, but it's his directing that is even better. It may not be one of his best films but certainly not his worst. 'The Mule' does have some problems with it's stereotypical characters and poor acting by the supporting cast. This is still good acting and directing by a true movie legend.
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| Dec 27, 2018 |  |
brettz | 4 71% |
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Capn Kue Que | 5 32% |
| Dec 26, 2018 |  |
Pugs4Less | 82 42% |
| Dec 26, 2018 | areoharewhy | 9 35% |
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| Dec 25, 2018 |  |
whitejeft | 90 72% |
| Dec 24, 2018 | ekraft | 3 10% |
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| Dec 23, 2018 |  |
mr_rob | 77 29% |
| Dec 20, 2018 |  |
Velvet Crowe | 67 71% |
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I find it hard to rate this film - on one end I find most of the subplots and characters boring, but Eastwood's character is intriguing especially considering the mythos behind his film legacy. I would rate this highly if it were purely on the merits of his character and how well it shapes the hard-hitting climax/ending, but it doesn't salvage what is ultimately rote and rudimentary filmmaking. I'd look at this as a mediocre film that manages to serve as a fantastic character study of its lead.
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| Dec 19, 2018 | energylegs23 | 65 38% |
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| Dec 19, 2018 | Dardy | 65 14% |
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| Dec 19, 2018 |  |
Robart | 90 84% |
| Dec 18, 2018 |  |
VengefulKBM | 75 63% |
| Dec 18, 2018 |  |
bad_juice | 65 86% |
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MetaCritic2 | 58 41% |
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EricDSnider2 | 78 36% |
| Dec 16, 2018 | kjones77 | 40 6% |
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| Dec 16, 2018 | filmcricket | 59 51% |
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| Dec 14, 2018 |  |
wetwillies | 85 55% |
| Average Percentile 45.84% from 117 Ratings |  |
