Oh, directed by Clint!
This isn’t a movie I would have chosen in a million years, but if she says it’s good, I’ll give it a go.
It is a confusing movie. I mean, it’s not “serious”, but it’s not overtly a comedy, either. And Clint plays a guy that both seems extremely competent and who is also a complete moron.
He has the other characters be really vile — at length — and it’s not quite clear what Clint is going for. Does he want the audience to laugh at the guys running off their mouths? Laugh with them? It’s just odd.
OK, he’s the dumbo and she’s the smart cookie.
Yeah, this isn’t a well-liked movie. I mean, by the common people. I don’t think the movie quite works…
I mean, it’s basically a parody on this kind of movie, but it’s also very much this kind of movie at the same time.
The character development scenes are brutally boring.
(And Clint has the cinematographer do some really awkward scenes, like here.)
It’s just such an odd and awkward movie. Clint had directed several movies by this point — he should have been able to make a movie that made more sense than this.
The last ten minutes is just this bus driving very slowly while cops shoot at it. I guess it’s meant to be funny? But but but it’s not.
And then the cops just let him do whatever he wants because cops are good at heart, or something.
It doesn’t work as a comedy, and it doesn’t work as an action movie.
The Gauntlet. Clint Eastwood. 1977. ⚁
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