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Overview
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Writers (WGA):
Boaz Yakin (written by) &
Scott Spiegel (written by)
Release Date:
7 December 1990 (USA) more
Plot:
Clint Eastwood plays a veteran cop who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German criminal (Raul Julia.) full summary | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Clint Eastwood Idles With Caricature Over Character in ‘Gran Torino’
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 19 December 2008, 7:54 AM, PST)
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Completely Pointless more (44 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Clint Eastwood | ... | Nick Pulovski | |
| Charlie Sheen | ... | David Ackerman | |
| Raul Julia | ... | Strom | |
| Sonia Braga | ... | Liesl | |
| Tom Skerritt | ... | Eugene Ackerman | |
| Lara Flynn Boyle | ... | Sarah | |
| Pepe Serna | ... | Lt. Ray Garcia | |
| Marco Rodríguez | ... | Loco | |
| Pete Randall | ... | Cruz | |
| Donna Mitchell | ... | Laura Ackerman | |
| Xander Berkeley | ... | Blackwell | |
| Tony Plana | ... | Morales | |
| David Sherrill | ... | Max | |
| Hal Williams | ... | Powell | |
| Lloyd Nelson | ... | Freeway Motorist |
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120 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)
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Spain:18 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Canada:PG | West Germany:16 (re-rated) (video) | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | Germany:18 | Norway:18 | South Korea:15 (DVD) (2003) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted
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The film featured over twice as many stuntmen as it did actors. Held the world record for the biggest ratio of stuntmen/actors. more
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Continuity: After Pulovski kills Strom, Strom disappears around the bend on the luggage belt, but he never shows up again, while Pulovski and Ackerman sit in front of it more
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Loco:
Just for that, I'm gonna make it hurt, puta!
[while attacking Sarah, who scratched him in the face]
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References Blazing Saddles (1974) more
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Red Zone more
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It's no surprise to see a formulaic, by-the-numbers action exploitation flick like this; the surprise is that even with Clint Eastwood in the directing chair, it ends up being completely pointless. As well as directing, he also stars in the film, in a role that pretty much screams 'Dirty Harry', and is hurt by how damn old and worn out he looks. Charlie Sheen co-stars with him, in the typical 'partner' role. For the first half, Sheen's pretty much a wimp; for the second half, he's a bad-ass guy who kicks almost as much ass as Eastwood does. Both give pretty good performances, but that's nowhere near enough to save such a cliché-ridden, stereotypical and predictable movie. Raul Julia does a great villain, as always, but like Sheen and Eastwood, he's not good enough to save the film. The plot is dull and uninteresting. The pacing is awful... the film could easily have been half an hour shorter without removing anything important or even remotely interesting. The action isn't particularly exciting or well-choreographed. The film brings absolutely nothing new to the genre, and does very little of interest to the viewer with what's already there. Only fans of one of the three lead actors or fans of exploitation action flicks could possibly find this interesting. From reading the trivia section of this site, you'll know that the film features more than twice as many stunt-men as it does actors... that describes the movie better than anything I could possibly write here. I recommend it to only to very big fans of one or more of the three lead actors, Eastwood, Sheen and Julia, and fans of exploitation action films.