Eastwood directs and plays a disgruntled war veteran in a US neighbourhood that has mainly migrant families. The film starts with the funeral of his wife, and the wake back at the family home. There we meet his family and the estrangement he feels from their modern way of life and taking of all their freedoms for granted.
The film then takes on the racial divide with him slowly getting to know his neighbours and their traditions, and the problems of street gangs by providing a begrudging role model for their wayward son who had attempted to steal his 1972 Gran Torino.
The film has a showdown ending with Eastwood taking on the problem gang in a sacrificial way to obtain justice after the gang had drive by shot at son's home.
Saw this at the cinema and it was a chance to pay homage to what will probably be his last film appearance.
A good well paced film 8/10.
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