It sees the actor-director play a one-time rodeo star sent on a mission. 93-year-old Clint Eastwood’s next movie Juror No. 2 recently completed filming and, according to reports, is set to be the last film that he directs.
As such, this makes Cry Macho – Eastwood’s 2021 movie which he directed and starred in – his final entry in the genre that made him famous: the Western. Made nearly 60 years after the Hollywood legend broke onto screens with Sergio Leone’s the Dollars Trilogy , Cry Macho is a neo-Western drama based on the novel of the same name by N. Richard Nash.
Set in the late ’70s, it sees Eastwood play Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who takes a job from an ex-boss (Dwight Yoakam) to bring the man’s young son (Eduardo Minett) home from Mexico. “Forced to take the backroads on their way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman finds unexpected connections and his own sense of redemption,” the plot synopsis reads. Released amid the Covid pandemic but now available to stream in Ireland and the UK on Netflix, Cry Macho received mixed reviews from critics, though many praised the movie for its emotional and melancholic tone, its Western elements, as well as for how it fits into Eastwood’s filmography as a whole.
Here’s a sample of some positive reviews of the movie: The Atlantic: “Yet another unpretentious, melancholy farewell from a director and actor w.
