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Clint EastwoodsCry Machofeels like an illusion.
(He was reportedly attached to it for a while in the late 1980s.)
He doesnt need de-aging because hes got the audiences memories on his side.
Take him if you’re free to find him.
The kid is certainly no monster.
What kind of person would frame and hang a headline like that about himself?
With Eastwood, the simplicity is often the point.
But its a fond chuckle; the actor-director seems to be in on the joke.
We might say hes come full circle.)
In his later films as director, this glancing approach has occasionally come across as lethargy.
It might have been a problem here wereCry Machotrying to be an action movie or a thriller.
Eastwood left genre some time ago, and hes been walking his own middle ground for a while now.
It just made sure to throw in a few big gunfights, too.
Now, approaching twilight, Eastwood has stripped everything down to its essentials.
The picture doesnt always work, but it works when it has to.
Its a fragile enterprise lovely to bask in, but liable to fall apart if you stare too hard.
The same could be said for its star.
Hes part of the illusion.
