I guess everyone just assumed that?

I watched it last week. It’s not one of his major films, but I enjoyed watching it. The usual complaints about some shaky performances or spots in the script that needed more work are fair, but just watching the commercials for any contemporary billion river of CGI vomit just makes me shrug them off. The thing that I really have trouble accepting, and that really does drag down the movie for me, is how obviously ass the prosecution’s case seems. I don’t really think that’s intentional.

It’s a better movie than Cry Macho, but it would have been a less appropriate swan song for Eastwood (although Macho probably was his swan song as an actor). He seems to have done a good enough job righting the ship after all the dubious stuff he turned out immediately after Gran Torino. But the actual standouts from this era that I’d be enthusiastic about going back to are The Mule and Richard Jewel.