Clint Eastwood is now 87 years old as I write this and every bit still the man's man. From his grit your teeth spaghetti westerns, to Dirty Harry, to Unforgiven Eastwood has shown us WHAT movies are supposed to be. The steely eyed gaze, gruff groveled voice full of growls, grunts and innuendos serves the story of the film right to a tee. Not only does Eastwood serve as Director and Producer he gives a powerful and driven performance as a Korean War vet who for a better lack of words is stuck in those times. He believes in being a soldier, the flag and hates foreigners. The story is great, powerfully delivered of a man who is stuck but learns along the way to forgive and open his eyes and heart. The film delivers a sequence of teachings about friendship, mentoring, bullying, love/hate, gangs and sacrifice. It certainly gives us a direct look into race relations and the stressors that come with. This movie will make you laugh at times, make you certainly think and humble you along the way. GREAT FILM

When I saw this I loved it. I feel there is some Walt in all of us somewhere. Whoever hasn't seen Gran Torino should. You will learn a lot of life lessons. It is one of the best.

In summary, the film is about a racist war veteran (Walt) who is somehow also the moral compass of the film, despite being a racist. We are ostensibly to accept that this is okay and that he's great because he is old, a war vet, and played by Clint Eastwood. Okay. The film also attempts (clumsily) to make Eastwood's horrible character more sympathetic by making the primary Vietnamese character a thief. I don't find any of this to be particularly great--or realistic--storytelling as others have said. I will say that I like the destination/message of the film--which I do think was well-intentioned--but I hated the path it took to get there. A more realistic story about these themes would have been, "the world becomes a better place because racist Walt died in Korea."

I agree with all the 10's. I watched this movie 4th (at least) time in a long time tonight. Reason for this review is I got quite a few laughs listening to the berating from Walt to his friends, and towards the Hmong. I guess I didn't grasp the humor previously like I did this time. I wish I could berate people as well and get away with it. A tragically sad but wonderful story overall to boot.