Still, Eastwood was ill-suited to play an international man of mystery, and he seems to be aware of it. Eastwood plays a jewel thief who witnesses the president of the United States Gene Hackman killing his mistress. That would pay off in a major way a few years later with Mystic River , but getting there meant getting through films like True Crime and Blood Work first.
The former finds Eastwood playing a reporter trying to determine the guilt or innocence of a man on death row in an adaptation of an Andrew Klavan novel. Blood Work finds him adapting a Michael Connelly best seller in which an FBI agent investigates a serial killer after a heart transplant. Eastwood stars in both, and both suffer from some of the late-career languors that started to creep into his movies after a certain point, mostly due to a tendency to let dialogue scenes play on and on without much regard to rhythm or pace.
Both are perfectly acceptable, but neither is ever extraordinary. Adapting a memoir by Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle — who logged confirmed kills during ten years of service, including a long stretch in Iraq, before being killed by a troubled Marine on a shooting range back home — Eastwood seems torn between making a riveting action movie and exploring the toll of war on those who fight them.
The same deliberate pacing of Midnight sometimes gets in the way of another true story, this time that of a memorable year for the South African rugby team, whose World Cup victory provided the country with a crucial moment of unity in the years after the abolishment of apartheid.
The Eiger Sanction seemingly gave Eastwood a taste for over-the-top action, which he continues to indulge in a film where he plays a hard-living cop tasked with escorting a mob trial witness Sondra Locke from Las Vegas to Phoenix. If nobody seems that deeply invested in the film personally, everyone appears to be enjoying themselves anyway.
As part of one of his most ambitious projects, Eastwood released two films about the Battle of Iwo Jima in , one from the perspective of the American soldiers, and one from the Japanese. That the image we know was in fact a second flag-raising, re-creating the moment for a photo op after the secretary of the Navy claimed the first flag as a trophy, is central to what Eastwood is doing in the film, which depicts war as both a military and a PR campaign.
Lauded for the heroism while still grappling with their experiences, the soldiers find the latter has its casualties as well. In the United States invaded the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, a brief military action that had already been largely forgotten by the time this big-screen depiction hit screens a few years later.
Wisely, the film understands it has to be about more than just the invasion of Grenada, which provides the film with its final act and serves as a capstone to the story of long-serving Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway Eastwood and his attempts to whip an undisciplined bunch of new Marines into shape. Eastwood made his directorial debut with this effective thriller in which he plays Dave Garver, a slick jazz DJ who makes the mistake of starting a relationship with an obsessive fan Jessica Walter.
Eastwood also seems to understand how he fits into a certain generation of movie stars — and that that generation would inevitably slip into the past. Space Cowboys rounds up an all-star cast of actors of a certain age, teaming Eastwood with James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Donald Sutherland in a story of four aging Air Force pilots who never got a chance to go to space but are called out of retirement to stop a Cold War—era Soviet satellite threatening to fall to Earth.
Overlooked at the time, it provided an early sign that Eastwood planned to keep challenging himself in the years that would follow. Set in s Los Angeles and based on a strange, infuriating true story, Changeling stars Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins, a single mother whose 9-year-old son goes missing.
Filmmakers have attempted to adapt N. Now 91, Eastwood looks the part of a man considering the weight of his choices at the end of his life. Eastwood has had a long, far-from-casual relationship with music. He appeared in the troubled musical Paint Your Wagon without embarrassing himself. He became a musician instead. But he struggled with addiction throughout his career, and those addictions cut his life short.
He also, wisely, lets much of the film rest on the shoulders of star Forest Whitaker, who finds the humanity within the icon. Reuniting with Gran Torino screenwriter Nick Schenk for a fact-based story, Eastwood again plays a man staring down death and trying to figure out what really counts.
R min Drama, Western. PG min Western. Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. R min Western. R 99 min Action, Drama, Western. A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
A mysterious preacher Clint Eastwood protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
PG 88 min Western. An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. Votes: 17, A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. He turns Even at such an age, he remains as active as ever.
He is best known for his movies set in the Wild West, specifically the Spaghetti Western genre, called so because the films were directed by Italian filmmakers. It can be said without exaggeration that Clint Eastwood and his character Man with No Name in Dollars Trilogy is still synonymous with the western film genre as a whole.
Here are five essential westerns starring Eastwood you should watch:. The definitive Spaghetti Western, and some say, the definitive Western, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, released in and yet is as compelling a watch as it was when it first released.
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