Originally Posted by Turnbull
THE MULE (2018)

This is your basic Clint Eastwood vehicle, and it works pretty well. He plays Earl Stone, a 90-year-old (not hard for Clint, who's 89), estranged from his family and facing foreclosure of his flower business. Then he's offered a job driving drugs for a Mexican cartel--they see him as ideal because he's very old, harmless-looking and is a careful driver. He makes plenty of money, but, inevitably, Crime Doesn't Pay. Eastwood's Stone is independent without being flinty, often humorous, and gets out of a couple of tricky situations. The Mexicans are amiable at first, then thuggish. The ending is weak, but, overall, it was enjoyable.

I don't know why Eastwood chose his character's involvement in a drug operation to convey the moral of a negligent but remorseful husband and father. Certainly, there are any number of storylines that a talent like Eastwood could have pursued to get the film's message across.

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