Cry Macho

awesome

source: Cry Macho

The bad: Clint Eastwood simply looks too old now to try and play strong macho cowboy characters. He can barely walk. I mean really, look how Eastwood is shuffling around the sets, trying not to fall... More bad: there is a lack of chemistry between the leading kid actor and Eastwood. Even more bad:the story is slowburning, bordering on tedious many times. It would be advisable to retire gracefully, because Eastwood's macho character looks painfully ridiculous at his age...

I have probably seen half of the movies in which he has acted, but I have seen almost every movie that he has directed. In terms of directing, this thing is his worst movie by far, and I would be willing to bet that it's also the worst movie in which he has acted. At least most of his previous lesser movies were mildly interesting. This thing is a bore fest. The acting is just god awful. Almost everyone either underacts or overacts-- mostly the latter. Although Clint is quite sprightly in this movie, he is in the twilight of his life. I hope that he can close it out with something that is much stronger than this nonsense.

Clint Eastwood is one of my favorite directors, but when the best actor in your movie is a rooster, it's time to retire.

Listen... I'm a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, but this is just depressing. Bad acting, a string of unlikely events and just an overall snooze fest. Props to Clint for doing this at 91, but me thinks it's time to retire...

Movie by itself its stale and slow,but the kid is god damn awful. So awful i had to stop after 60 mins. And this is coming from a Clint Fanboy.

Amazing Clint Eastwood directed and took the lead role at the age of 91. Ok there are some noticable limitations both in acting and directing. But still a a Heartfelt story telling. There. I enjoyed every minute of it. Not because it's a swan song of a great actor and director but it tells a story from real world of seniors. Thank you for the moment.

I was worried if The Mule, which was decent, but nothing more was his last performance. While I didn't think Cry Macho was something I loved, I was happy to find it something I liked. The tones of drama, suspense and some humor blend nicely and so does the chemistry with Eastwood and his costars. While still a good actor, his body movements look noticeably wobbly, but there's still screen charisma and the story was mostly interesting aside from an unnecessary subplot of Clint healing animals so to speak and they tried to have a romantic relationship between Eastwood and a waitress. The problem is she doesn't speak English and it would be tough for him to understand since he keeps needing translations. Subtitles appear very randomly in this movie. It took over 30 years to make this movie and though it wasn't great, at least I was happy his last performance was a good movie.

We recently watched The Mule and I was surprised Clint still had it in him to make a great film, but this one didn't reach the same level for me. Beautifully filmed, as all his movies are, but a predictable story with lame, and sometimes cringey, dialogue, and the kid was trying way too hard to act. Dwight Yoakam phoned in his part as well. The best acting was done by the rooster, honestly. All in all, not unwatchable, but not one of his better ones.