150 Word Review: ‘Cry Macho’ (2021)
Clint Eastwood says goodbye, again
I recently read about a 101-year-old woman who catches lobsters in Maine and if she can fish at her age then 91-year-old actor and director Clint Eastwood can star in one more western if he wants.
In Cry Macho, the screen legend dusts off his sensitive tough guy persona one more time as a crotchety, frail-looking old cowboy hired by a ranch boss to track down his son in Mexico and bring him back to Texas. Never mind that the boss, played by Dwight Yokum, literally fires Eastwood’s character right before dropping the entire plot.
As the not-so-young like to say, age is just a number and that’s especially true in this road trip melodrama where a wise coot teaches an unruly kid life lessons. Elderly Eastwood throws punches, breaks wild horses, and gets to smooch a much younger señorita. The movie is a border fable, simple, slow, and romantic.
