It’s further confirmation that the legendary filmmaker hasn’t lost his nimble, self-referential touch. Full of ladies’ man charm and self-deprecating wit, his turn is as assured as his typically efficient direction, which balances suspense and poignancy with aplomb. Pursued by Bradley Cooper’s ambitious DEA agent, who’s similarly striving to meet the requirements of a demanding boss (Laurence Fishburne), Eastwood’s protagonist proves another one of his broken-down big-screen warriors. Eastwood’s lined visage and creaky comportment can’t dull his fiery spirit in this based-on-real-events drama, which finds the Hollywood icon amusingly raging against modernity’s Internet-and-smartphone addictions, even as his down-on-his-luck character grapples with the familial cost of putting personal obsessions above all else. In his first performance in six years, Clint Eastwood brings an elegiac gracefulness and good humor-not to mention defiant toughness-to the role of a 90-year-old flower aficionado named Earl who opts to work as a drug runner in The Mule.
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