CRY MACHO (2021) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Eduardo Minett, Natalia Traven,
Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola, Horacio Garcia Rojas
In what's likely to be his final road movie, Clint plays an old cowboy dispatched to Mexico to retrieve the son of a wealthy horse rancher and bring the kid back across the border to Texas. Eastwood was about 90 when he made this. He moves and looks and sounds old, and his timing is about half a beat off. He still knows how to bite off a good line, though, and when a friendly restaurant owner played by Natalia Traven comes along, the years drop away and his eyes light up in a way that's unmistakable. The story's leisurely to the point of being lackadaisical. You know it'll get where it's going eventually, but it's in no particular hurry to get there, and neither is its star, content to pull off the road from time to time just to poke around and hang out. When you're 90, nobody expects you to go anywhere too fast.
