CryMacho review: Clint Eastwood remains a filmmaker of ageless diverting classicism, but this road movie is a minor affair
still knows how to direct a movie with a nice, clean leisurely classical spareness, something you wish more directors knew how to do . As a filmmaker, Eastwood has earned the right to be called ageless. As an actor, though, he’s not trying to hide his age. In “,” he plays a broken-down horse breeder and former rodeo rider who is given the task of going down to Mexico City to retrieve a 13-year-old boy, Rafael , and drive him back to Texas.
How is the movie? Adapted from N. Richard Nash’s 1975 novel , it’s friendly and diverting and formulaic, in an inoffensive and good-natured way, and it’s a totally minor affair. It’s set in 1979, after Clint’s Mike Milo has been fired by Howard Polk, his boss at the ranch, played by a blustery Dwight Yoakam. But as we learn, Mike owes Howard a lot . So when Mike is asked to head over the border to retrieve Howard’s estranged son, he’s got little choice but to go.
They are. Eduardo Minnett, who has been a regular on several Mexican TV series, has a baby-faced wholesomeness and a sweet, spirited manner. Rafael has every right to be surly about Mike taking him away, but we can see from the start that he’s no delinquent; his mother is just projecting. Mike still has to win him over, of course, but the movie might have had more bite to it if Rafael were in greater need of taming.
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