Gran Torino

Em Million Dollar Baby - Sonhos Vencidos, Clint Eastwood não se moveu do ringue, aqui ele não se move do terraço da sua casa. Gran Torino segue os passos íntimos da recente obra de boxe dele e dá ao espetador um nocaute ainda mais poderoso. Clint dirige uma das suas personagens mais interessantes numa imagem que flui «sem obstáculos». No cenário bem definido de uma história simples, a continuidade perfeita das cenas individuais é exemplar, e elas são bem servidas diante dos seus olhos ao fazer um estudo curioso do personagem de Clint. Mesmo uma breve cena de cortar a relva faz sentido neste filme. Tudo nele faz sentido e tem um propósito. Para não mencionar a canção durante os créditos finais... (16/02/2009)

“Dirty Harry" with one foot in the grave looks back on his live and ponders over questions of life and death. Clint approached this rather tired topic with great verve, and with transcends it and has a feeling of quality about it that only he has the knowhow to imprint into his movies. He follows the simple maxim “what you don’t do yourself isn’t yours". He played his best role for many years, shot his best role for many years, produced his best role for many years and partly wrote and sang his best song for many years. Shame that he didn’t shoot his best movie for many years. But still, it’s a great movie. And that’s what’s most important, isn’t it? P.S.: I couldn’t name another movie where a simple background song for the credits would make such an impact. It’s by far the best song in the whole movie. It says exactly the same, but needs just a couple of minutes to say it. (15/12/2008)

Another leisurely trip to the afflictions of old age and the desires of youth, and after "Million Dollar Baby," another demonstration of Eastwood's mastery. To obtain several excellent refutations of clichés, even while showing himself as the hero of the year, Clint once again defies cinematography according to his own principles. 90% and an unstoppable finish after them. (03/03/2009)

This really swept me away. The entire film flows with the same melancholic mood, regardless of whether they are exchanging bullets or sarcastic wisecracks. Gran Torino drives straight to a clear ending, but that’s one of its strengths. Really, a surprising twist wouldn’t be fitting, everything ends the way it should. And the end credits have a wonderful song with a powerful effect that multiplies the emotions of the film as a whole. For me, one of the year’s best films. (27/12/2008)

Clint's Farewell, or Empties by the American badass. The film has a tendency to slide into cliché and calculation, but the character of a grumpy old man who finds redemption (?) in his old age has the kind of gradation that will make you swallow the two hours of mentoring and lamenting the good old days to the max. Objectively, there are many things that could be criticized about it, but subjectively, it affected me so much that I don't want to have any reservations regarding it. (15/05/2009)