Gran Torino is a film that will amuse, anger and ultimately move you -- due in large part to Clint Eastwood's sheer magnum force.

Story

Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is an angry, racist ex-Marine -- recently widowed and living alone with his dog in his old neighborhood, now overrun with mostly Asian gangs. When the next door youth, A Hmong teen named Thao (Bee Vang) tries to steal his beloved Gran Torino, he strikes up a relationship with the boy that profoundly changes both. As Thao and his…

Clint Eastwood has hinted that his role as bigoted Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski — a gun-toting widower living in Detroit near the struggling Ford auto plant and even nearer to the Asian immigrants crowding him out of his run-down, racially mixed hood — may be his last role as an actor. Eastwood, 78, has two Oscars for directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby, and two nominations for starring in them. But an Oscar for acting? Not yet. Get busy, Academy.

I don't think Eastwood will ever…