I love Gran Torino and the racial slurs was the icing on the cake. Without them I would have given the movie a 6 instead of a 9. His casual racism gave his character charm and depth without being insulting. Most of his slurs are archahic and born out of a real, but expired need to use them. I was laughing out loud from the unintentional comedy of it all.
I never felt that the ending was predicable unless you are meaning that you figured it out 5 minutes before it happened. You knew the situtaion was going to be resolved, but you didn't know what the body count would be until that last 5 minutes.
I did see Blood Work although I almost forgot that I watched it in the first place. You are right, hence why I almost forgot about the movie, seeing that it was so forgetable. He must have been learning the ropes seeing that his later movies have been good to excellent.
And to my un-look forward too and promised review of
Behind Enemy lines 2: Axis of Evil
If you haven't figured out by now, the title is based off the quote GWB made regarding Iran, Iraq and North Korea. This movie is set in NK seeing that is one country we can freely insult without harm.
If you ever seen the first movie staring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. It's a pretty good war movie about Owen going off mission in a recon flight over Bosnia and getting shot down for his troubles. It had a good budget, charm, characters, action and most importantly military support allowing them to "rent" military hardware for their movie making one kick ass package with an ending that screams USAUSAUSA.
This movie has none of that. It's low budget, dry, boring, at points stupid and has stock footage military support. The script is written by hacks, it's directed by hacks, it's acted by hacks and some good actors who needed the money who then phoned it in because they weren't given enough money.
The plot and ending is based on this event
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648794.stmMade for TV mini series are better than this, which somehow made a thearatrical release. This aborted messed should have never been made.
I did rent this for a 1 dollar with expectations low enough to wipe floors with, but it's so poor that I feel that I have a moral imperative to warn poeple away from this red, white and blue colored turd of the movie that fails even to be an effective right-wing propaganda movie.
Just fraking terrible/10