Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Cry Macho

Cry Macho is a fable about redemption, it’s the journey of an old man, bringing a teen from Mexico City to his estranged American dad. Their long journey is one of two men each attempting to win the upper hand.

The movie is adapted to the screen by Eastwood and N. Richard Nash, who wrote the novel this movie is based on back in 1975, but the mostly two-character movie is very slow and doesn’t really elevate.

Eastwood vulnerability in Cry Macho is one of an older man with minimal careful movements, dry slow speech and a look that is closer to what his real age.

For the ingenious filmmaker who has been retiring for the past thirty years, Cry Macho, marks his 40th as a film director. This feels like a movie that might probably only be remembered as a placeholder the next Eastwood movie, which usually comes once a calendar year, yet with pandemic slowing down Hollywood, at this point, no new Eastwood film is in the works!

At the end of the day, this is an Eastwood movie, and one can’t go against an instant classic, so it gets a THUMBS UP from me.

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