His last boxing movie was horrible.
And I couldn't stand Mystic River. Ugh.
Unforgiven was OK, but I don't know why he's heralded as a great director. Most of his stuff is liberal schlok IMO.
DEPRESSING is the word.
"His last boxing movie was horrible"---
---I didn't think it was horrible, just a thoroughly conventional decent/good movie that was vastly overpraised, due largely to Roger Ebert's intemperate
MASTERPIECE label put on it immediately, and his silly
TV review where he kept punching the "if you think this is just a boxing movie, you are going to be very surprised,becuase it turns into SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY halfway through! I can't say what, but.......etc.etc."
It did have some undeniably moving moments though, like when the meaning of the Gaelic phrase was revealed to her on her deathbed, but boy, did the movie have to work hard to get to that moment. And some funny stuff too, like the desultory meandering conversation between Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in the gym's office, about the holes in his socks.Overall, though, the film didn't even seem to get the details of the boxing world right, it was all kind of generic and made-up-feeling, like it could have happened in any time and place, because, who would really know , not being an insider into the seamy world of sweaty gyms and the more current trend of female boxers? UNFORGIVEN is by far the best of Eastwood's films, followed by A PERFECT WORLD, and one of his earliest PLAY MISTY FOR ME.