Cry Macho reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Mark Kermode reviews Cry Macho. A former rodeo star, old and down on his luck, is sent to Mexico to find and bring back his employer's son.
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With a better script and a different actor playing the boy, it would have been decent. It was solidly directed by Eastwood. Given his age, a solidly directed film is remarkable achievement. At 91 I'll have been dead for 20 years
The kid is. Awful actor
Not the best script, but a pleasent watch regardless. It’s nice to have a Clint movie where no one tragically dies at the end for a change. Loved the rooster!
I thought the rooster was the best actor! 😂 😂 😂
I strive to be insipidly amiable in all things.
If the protagonist is in his 90s, that means that he must have had his accident at least 50 years ago. He’s still in debt to his employer after all this time?
The protagonist is supposed to be in his late 60s. The problem is that Clint looks and acts 90 (because he is).
Clint is in my top 3 favourite actors of all time some of my greatest cinematic memories stem from him but I do honestly think that after The Mule he should have gone out on a high. I suppose it would be like asking a fish not to swim, he will always make films, well received or not, until the day he dies. I’ll give this a watch as I always do but I will keep my expectations low. Thanks Mark & Simon 👍
“Tinkerly Plonkey Golden Hour” I’m compiling a list of kermode-isms.
Mark: "...and has a pet called MACHO..."
Simon: -_-
It would be an ok concept if Clint was like 70, but he's really pushing it at this point. Maybe retiring from acting and just directing films would be a better fit for him
A more than acceptable outcome on the proviso that you like the films that he directs.
Dwight Yoakam has been a professional actor for years! Simon seemed really surprised he was appearing in this film, and I kept waiting for Mark to correct him & mention Yoakam's varied career.
He was in Billy Bob Thornton's Slingblade way back in 1996, and also gave a particularly unhinged performance as one of the three intruders in FIncher's Panic Room, along with Jared Leto and Forest Whitaker.
Yes he played his rolls good in those movies but in this one it seems like he's reading his lines at the script reading table. Maybe it's the script?
Maybe Clint just needed to get out the house...
I recently watched The Mule. Apparently, being able to drive at or slightly below the speed limit is a highly prized skillset by the Cartel.
You joke but it actually is. You want people who won't draw attention and look like they belong. Who's going to suspect a octogenarian being a drug smuggler. And the film was based on a true story.
You don't know a lot about drug mules don't you?
I often enlist men in their 90s to do dangerous jobs for me.
I'll still watch it. Clint, more often than not knows how to entertain.
Cry Macho may not be his best or most original film but it’s just so cool that Eastwood is still around and still making movies and that there are so many generations who have been watching new Eastwood movies (I’m almost 18 and a big fan of his).
He’s 94 as of my typing this and working on what’s expected to be his last film. God, I can only dream of making it to that age let alone to be as active and professional as he is at the moment
Clint Eastwood has had a long and storied career. He has acted in and directed some great movies. He is now quite old and will not live forever. After watching Cry Macho, I found myself sincerely hoping that this is not his last film. I would hate to see him go out on such a mediocre note.
I think letting Clint make movies like this is elder abuse
This sounds very much like one of the abandoned Rambo sequel ideas. I wonder if that was based on this novel?
Dwight Yoakam played a type of country music called the Bakersfield sound which was popularized by Buck Owens in the 1950s.
What did he mean by terrible country? He needs to shape up and listen to some of his music
At some point you have to give up. It's true most people in their 90s couldn't direct or act in a film. It's a personal acheivement for sure. But doesn't mean it's a good time for an audience. In fairness to Clint plenty of actors and directors peaked decades earlier.
Well, a man's got to know his limitations, and apparently Clint doesn't with this movie.
there is always a great Clint movie on TV this week I watched For a few dollars more and the Eiger Sanction
A Few Dollars More is a brilliant classic, but the Eiger Sanction is a very underrated and somewhat forgotten gem that I wish more people were aware of.
After the two much much younger woman come on to him, I was already loosing the plot. He is Clint and his mind seems online, but physically he very much looks his age. Who would write this stuff?
Yeah completely agree with Mark here.
The main problem in this film was just how weirdly uneventful it was. It just... dragged on and on. Unusually boring for an Eastwood film, although there are one or two nice moments in it, as well as a couple of classically delivered Eastwood lines near the beginning of the film.
Another problem as raised in this review was just how weird it was that two of the main female characters in the film seemingly just started flirting with Clint's character from the moment they meet him - the mother of the boy actually tries to seduce him to bed at the start of the film which was just felt weird and silly to watch.
I just feel the character of Mike was meant for someone younger than Clint - given that he's now 91 years old. I didn't believe for a second that two young women would immediately feel irrepressibly attracted for this 90 year old man - even if it is a man as effortlessly cool as Clint Eastwood.
Additionally, I thought that the young boy's performance wasn't great. I want to cut him some slack as he's only young, but for me his acting was slightly distracting in how poor it was.
So overall the film was just a bit of a forgettable slog. I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I hope Eastwood still keeps on directing as he's incredibly good at it, and he's still a wonderful actor. However, I think his age is going to make it very difficult to be a believable lead character anymore - particularly in stories such as this one.
Dear Mr Kermode & Mr Mayo,
Given, this Remembrance weekend, & because I know you both have a heart (The Toy Story episode).
I would be eternally grateful if you would be kind enough to review my VERY short film made on my sister old i-phone.
This film is dedicated to the memory of my Great Grandfather (Corporal William Barrows, 13126 Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry. Sadly killed on the 2nd of June 1916, on this the first day of The Battle of Mont Sorrel. Killed with his friend Second Lieutenant Arthur Coke Thomas whilst trying to reach eleven cut-off Canadians... All of them would die together, and my Great Grandfather would never get a change to kiss his daughter's forehead for the first time (My Grandmother).
Coke & Barrows now lie in adjacent graves in a special corner of the Bedford house Cemetery in Belgium. Chums now forever at each others side.
I now live in France, and I have to say that every remembrance day, sometimes with the very same mud under my fingernails, I know I am in the finest company over here!
Bless you both, thank you, and thoughts to all those Lions. 🙏🏻🌞
Nigel Carren
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As the years pass, Eastwood looks more and more like Commander Vimes from Ankh-Morpork.
Lol brilliant !
Just watched Clint's latest movie it's what I expected not a CGI blockbuster. probably a movie only Clint could direct and get away with I wasn't disappointed a slow burn of a film just watching the characters unfold. In this fast moving world a film like this will not be everyones cup of tea, but for me it was just fine if I'd seen this in the cinema I would not have been disappointed unlike some bigger films I've seen recently.
Dwight Yokam does something every year (1990 to present) Recently had a nice supporting role in Goliath. He's pretty decent.
Hmmm …New Country for Old Men
Nothing new exists outside of a vacuum, if you want to create something new you must first displace what is already there (some one said) so if anyone can get away with being derivative it’s Clint. It’s not formulaic if it’s Clint, he’s simply repossessing what is already his.
I live in that picturesque village. More Netflix movies are being shot around it and in my state in the US. New Mexico lindo.
I'm watching it rt now on HBO Max and 7 mins in, it feels like they're doing a practice run at the script table so I needed a 2nd opinion. I'll continue watching because of the red dress bar seen but it s Clint man!
Seeing Clint Eastwood wearing a Cowboy hat and riding horses was enough for me, there was some beautiful shots everything was paint by numbers, seen it before cliches, preposterous c’mons and the ending short.
Still it was Clint Eastwood in Cowboy hat.
This is the sort of film he should have made in the 80s or 90s. It just seemed too slow and dated at this stage. Despite that, I enjoyed elements of the movie. Clint is always great.
Very much agreed with Mark on this one. It's completely uneventful and cliché, and even for Clint, having women five decades his younger is becoming a stretch of the imagination. Props to the DP, though. Some of the landscape shots were magnificent, reminiscent of Badlands.
"even for Clint, having women five decades his younger is becoming a stretch of the imagination"
Aye, granted that Clint Eastwood has a certain charisma (a bit like Toshiro Mifune, in fact) but at the age of 90?! It's long crossed over into sheer vanity, like the way that in Adam Sandler movies the Adam Sandler character is always married to a woman who just so happens to be played by, say, Jennifer Anniston or Salma Hayek.
Father-son relationship? Surely more great-grandfather-great-grandson relationship.I saw a trailer and Clint’s skin looked suspiciously smooth for a nonagenarian.
There should be a book on Kermode phrases.
As a fan of Clint as both actor and director, I'm sad to say I found the film hugely disappointing. As Kermode states, it is preposterous nonsense. It neither engages or makes sense. I do so hope this is not his swan song. From what I understand the script had been kicking around in development hell for a number of years and it shows.
Mark, you're being too harsh for mine. Solid film for a Sunday matinee session. “This is the man who made 'Unforgiven”, whilst I agree with that sentiment in expecting more, it somehwat worked as a reflection piece. 3/5
Couldn't watch more than 10 minutes. I have such admiration for Clint, but it was hard watch him rattling around. I hope I am still active if I ever make it to his age, but he should have hung up his spurs after The Mule.
Clint Eastwood just wow!!!!
If you want to see a good movie by an old geezer from last year watch Yoji Yamada’s Cinema God (not sure what the English name is)
The opening scene between Clint and Yoakam almost made me turn off the movie. It was so fucking bad. Is Yoakam that bad of an actor? "I need you to get me my son because he is my son and I love my son, please get me my son." Holy shit the script was like, HEY THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. Clint himself is ok at acting, but 91 years old should NOT be action or in a love story. Anyone else notice he has NO ass muscles left? It is awkward to see him move around. The son is not a good actor either. Ouch. The best actors in this were the bar owner woman and the kid's mom. Best part of the movie there.
Clint hasn’t been the same since that whole talking to a chair stint.
In these times of an eternal cosmetic life many still seem shocked that people grow old and lose judgement at a rapid pace. Saw an interview with Paul McCartney a couple of weeks ago and there were moment where he just gazed into the distance with glazed eyes.
No one there to say , that’s it, time to see out your days. Same for Clint. Time to hang up your boots cowboy.
A horrible boring movie and miscast putting clint wayy too old for this....didn't believe he could go and get the kid and beat up those people and cringe when the younger women wanted him....wow it was bad
I must say that Mexico was once again stereotypically staged to be a dump and almost as insulting as the peasant-ville in 'The Three Amigos.' I'm a border-raised kid and nothing in the film seemed authentic but rather surreal. I would have gone with it if that was the premise. Clint should know better.
I left before the first clip featured in this review. I wasn't the only person to leave prematurely either. This is a very very poor film IMHO. Incoherent and unbelievable. Poorly drawn characters with fairly poor and unrealistic dialogue. Clint Eastwood looks quite fragile in all honesty ... and the idea that he can punch a 'gangster' in the face and said hoodlum then calls for help. Very silly.
Nope. Watched this on its opening Saturday night at the Varsity in downtown Toronto while a ghost of a TIFF flickered on a few blocks south. Felt privileged to have a practically private screening of this wonderful little movie. Even a minor work of a master is a work of a master.
Can we always get a 5 word summary of movies
Unforgiven was a brilliant movie. And we have forgiven too much from Clint Eastwood because of it.
Yup. Its a pretty dreadful movie. Its Eastwood's worst movie as a director by a country mile.
There is a saying that you shouldn’t drive after 90. Perhaps you shouldn’t do movies either.
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The kind of film where you’re waiting in anticipation for some nice shots of horses to get away from the naff dialogue. This film has no narrative drive, just a series of cliches as Mark says. The cock’s climactic scene is also a cliche, yet stolen from a comedy movie.
Watched it this morning on a Qantas airplane .. My expectations were high with it being Clint Eastwood but I was disappointed on so many levels, poor story, laughable script, wooden acting & to top it off a chicken that thinks it's a rottweiler !!
I wanted to enjoy it but found myself tutting & shaking my head every 2 minutes 🥺
I love how mark often does not even say if he lovers or hates the movie just either rants about it or waxes lyrical about. Love it 🤣🤣💪🏻💪🏻🤘🏻
Kinda sounds like Gran Torino in Mexico
Unforgiven is so good
Clint Eastwood needs to retire with a new Dirty Harry Callahan movie. Hard Magnum
For once I don’t care what Mark thinks & I will ignore him! Clint is a legend & a hero of mine & I can’t wait to see it 🤷🏼♂️ I’d like to see someone else at 91 do any better 😂
I think I might watch The Lusty Men instead.
HILARIOUS 😁
Too similar to the Marksman.
This film fell flat for me
I watched you gush over Dune (2 hours 35 mins of sand snooze) last week, I no longer trust your judgement
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Glad we all now know 'Django unclaimed' has bad taste. Thats cleared that up.
@@geoafe66 glad we all know @A Afedola gets hurt when people criticise Dune 😳
@@geoafe66 Dune was awful.
Clint was never that great but is now terrible. He's been a joke the last 20 years and im convinced that his legacy will be him yelling at that empty chair...
Cry Matcho
Mark you may be failing to realise that this is a pastiche of Eastwood films by Eastwood. The critic you pick up on are the devices that made the westerns of Clint as an actor terrible so I think he is making a response to the cliches he had to carry out as an actor and it is laughable. On the other hand I could be talking out of my bottom too?
unfortunately this movie wreaked of clint eastwoods ego.
this film was a geriatric pants pony
Clint eastwood is a terrible actor and a pretty horrible person. He should've retired in the 80s
Clint is a great actor and a great person and best of all he is a republican. He is indeed brilliant on all accounts
@@donguess4332 wrong and he's senile now, so of course he's a republican.
Yolt
Hahahaha
Clint Eastwood is way too old, it's kind of gross.
It's better to be a "has been" than a "never was and never will be" like you.
I love Mr Eastwood
I loved Gran Torino, thought The Mule was excellent, I even really liked Trouble With The Curve, Cry Macho however made me weep because it was so bloody awful.
I really hope that this abomination isn't Mr Eastwood's swansong. Just an incredibly bad movie.