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Life torn Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a Korean War veteran who lives in an urban Detroit neighborhood among Hmong immigrants. Kowalski’s once peaceful neighborhood is now a victim of gang violence. Upon his wife’s death, Kowalski slowly and reluctantly comes to know his neighbors as more than racial stereotypes. Eventually he comes to realize that he has more in common with them than his own spoiled family, who see him as an old racist useful only in what he can do for them. As the gang violence escalates and threatens to consume the lives of his newfound friends and neighbors, Kowalski decides he must take matters into his own hands in order to protect them.

A wonderful movie of embracing cultural diversity by both Kowalski and his Vietnamese neighbors. Eastwood brings a bit of geriatric Dirty Harry to the screen. Seems the older he gets the better actor and director he becomes. This movie is not for the cultural hypersensitive as our characters evolve, but in the end it  makes a strong social statement. Great movie.

Rating:  4.5 our ot 5