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 12 collections
1. boobs (public: moderated by Pickpocket - 43 stars)
2. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
3. Based On True Events (public: moderated by Spunkie - 8 stars)
4. Director/star combination (public: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
5. Old directors (70+) (public: moderated by von krogh - 3 stars)
6. Director at least 80 years old (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
7. Based on an article (public: moderated by dookobore)
8. Mexican drug cartel (public: moderated by ramynoodle)
9. The Best of 2018 (private: SageSledge)
10. 2019: Complete Watchlist (private: SageSledge)
11. 2019 (private: sproost)
12. 2019 (private: cash)
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orchidman | 67 47% |
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zmt311 | 72 55% |
| Jun 10 | nobamba | 40 23% |
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As usual Clint Eastwood provides a good character study into his own character while neglecting all the others around him. You can literally summarize the others: Mexican drug lord, ex-wife, wishful granddaughter (more like a great-granddaughter!), cartel goons, snitch...the plot isn't any deeper either. If the bad guys are keeping careful watch on him, why do they bother paying him so much? I also expected threats to his family which didn't happen. Fav scene: social commentary w/profiling?
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joeroxy | 55 16% |
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again eastwood pleas with a declining america to veer from his own regrettable path, complicating symbols of the american dream without stripping them of their innate allure, unmasking oblivious privilege and misplaced priorities on both a personal and institutional level. he doesn't always give the viewer enough credit, and i'd prefer a harsher ending and less shitty grandad jokes, but even so nobody understands and critiques the US from the inside quite like clint.
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| May 13 | Zangin | 70 62% |
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I don't know if Clint Eastwood plays an old kook so well because he's a great actor or because he's an old kook himself now. Either way, he's a joy to watch here. The Mule's plot is nothing special and definitely takes some creative liberties with how cartels operate, but it's a surprisingly good movie. Small touches like Eastwood's character's fondness for flowers and his desire to travel off the beaten path, in spite of the risks of his new occupation, really breathe life into this script.
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dookobore | 70 49% |
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chiefg | 65 45% |
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baristoker | 70 46% |
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Yiannos | 53 30% |
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Standard regretful-old-man drama is bolstered by the welcome return of Clint to the big screen. Time has not really diminished his presence or skill, at least not in front of the camera, and there is a certain fascination in watching him play a man who is forced to become a drug mule in his twilight years out of sheer desperation, but his direction is rote and the narrative decisions are purely by the book. Lacking an element of surprise, it simply goes through the motions and never takes off.
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| Apr 13 | fabioleal | 60 30% |
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ikkegoemikke | 69 78% |
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Damn Clint, you look old. But you're still legendary. More reviews here: http://movie-freak.be [Full Review]
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jeff_v | 58 18% |
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MJVmovieMan | 85 87% |
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Well made and suspenseful. Great drama. I thought the pacing was fine.
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jmsenise | 78 65% |
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Vassago | 72 60% |
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Koalafish | 60 29% |
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Eastwood is still a good actor and the directing is also ok, but the script is just too weak and the entire premise doesn't really make sense.
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| Mar 30 | skb2933 | 70 38% |
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Vandelay1 | 70 71% |
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good movie
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| Mar 29 |  |
sarp | 60 23% |
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LuxNatalis | 57 51% |
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td888 | 70 77% |
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Time hasn't been kind to Eastwood but he still knows how to make an entertaining movie.
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P u l p | 44 27% |
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Seemed very personal.
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| Mar 23 |  |
glumpy_99 | 72 32% |
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Passable drama coasts on the good will inherent in seeing Eastwood directing his favourite actor again, and the novelty of his performance as a character in dangerously over his head. Skirts credibility in its depiction of law enforcement, as well as some very naïve drug dealers; did Earl *have* to indulge in so much extraneous race-baiting? A well-stocked supporting cast is given little to do, bar Wiest delivering the first painfully overwrought and unconvincing performance of her career.
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| Mar 23 |  |
buddhalou | 70 52% |
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muratkrks | 65 43% |
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adamj1982 | 50 19% |
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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 16% |
| Mar 21 | The Hell | 70 10% |
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EmreZabun3 | 78 68% |
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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 |  |
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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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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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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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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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So strange
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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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Leonardis | 80 39% |
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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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avgcrtckr | 52 48% |
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filmaffinity | 68 73% |
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gert | 50 32% |
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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 33% |
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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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paah | 70 58% |
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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% |
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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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