Clint Eastwood is the quintessential bad ass - he doesn’t even need a gun just a finger and a cocked thumb -, and in Gran Torino he just proves that being 72 isn’t going to effect that at all.

Over his career, Clint Eastwood has time and time again established himself as probably the best anti-hero in cinematic history, whether it be a rogueish cowboy (Sergio Leone movies), a dirty harry (all those dirty harry’s), a fake dirty harry (the gauntlet), another cowboy (Unforgiven) or an angry old man carved  out of drift wood [...]