Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Sam Dolnick, Nick Schenk
Actors: Clint
Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Manny Montana, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia, Michael
Pena, Laurence Fishburne
Hooray for
Clint Eastwood! What an honest,
self-deprecating actor and director he reveals himself to be in this
movie. Those of us in the “senior”
generation remember him as a beautiful specimen of a movie hero who could even carry a
tune.
In this
movie, he plays a 90-year-old horticulturalist who is guided into a life of "muling" drugs on behalf of a Mexican cartel.
His walk is slow and measured now, his voice trembly when he sings, but
he is as he always has been – a stubborn, strong-willed man who has his own
codes of what’s right and wrong in life.
As he did in
his younger days, he depicts a heroic man who will not be steered away from his
goal. In a way, I suspect this is his personal exclamation point that, yeah, he’s no longer the hunky superhero, but
he still hasn’t veered from his path of being true to himself.
This movie
is filled with surprising charm. I
giggled and cried and loved him as I always have. As director, Eastwood knows how to bring out
the humanity in his cast. Eastwood even
imbues the “bad guys” -- the cartel boss and his minions – with a certain
amount of likability factor. All the supporting
cast acquit themselves competently.
Dianne Wiest, as always, captures the essence of gentleness beneath her
tough exterior.
What I loved
most about this movie is the honesty of life’s evolutionary journey, one containing
mistakes, anger, hate, love, evil, and so many pitfalls. Yet, throughout the journey, you can only do
it “your way” since, after all, you are
the one who reaps the ultimate consequences.
TAGS: The Mule, Clint
Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Manny Montana, Dianne Wiest, Michael Pena, Andy
Garcia, Laurence Fishburne
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