Get off my blindspot! Images courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
1/10 After 37 movies in the director’s chair, not including ones he only produced or starred in, 88-year-old Clint Eastwood remains a cultural icon who commands the respect of his peers and viewership, but with every new movie he directs, it becomes more and more clear that somebody should take the camera away from him – or at least, take the chair away from him.
He makes a real ass out of himself in In The Mule, the new screwball comedy based on the story of Leo Sharp. In the movie, Earl Stone (Eastwood, who also directs and produces), a Korean War veteran whose horticulture business goes under in 2017 because it can’t compete with this newfangled Internet phenomenon, gets into drug running for the cartel as a way to make money for his family and community. An ideal mule because of his age, race and pristine driving record, Stone quickly becomes the cartel’s top man, but then some of the cartel members begin to resent him for reasons that are either unclear, stupid or both. Stone, who is estranged from his family because he consistently picked work over them to an insane, almost hilarious extent, is forced once again to pick between his cartel work and being there for the people he loves.
None of this connects in any way to the DEA investigation led by Colin Bates (Bradley Cooper).
Reel Entropy 