Cry Macho

Cry Macho

Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

  • Released: 2021-09-16
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Western
  • Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eduardo Minett, Natalia Traven, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola, Horacio García Rojas, Marco Rodríguez, Paul Alayo, Brytnee Ratledge, Amber Lynn Ashley, Alexandra Ruddy, Sebestien Soliz, Daniel V. Graulau, Abiah Martinez, Ramona Thornton, Elida Munoz, Cesia Isabel Rosales, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Ana Rey, Rocko Reyes, Ruben Barela, Gianni Calchetti, Rob Estrada, Darlene Kellum, Fausto Olmos Rentería, Ivan Hernandez
  • Director: Clint Eastwood
 Comments
  • banhei - 20 March 2024
    A simple story well told
    I recorded CRY MACHO a couple years ago from a free HBO weekend and then saw here many below-5-stars reviews, so thought it must really stink and never played it. Tonight my mom was having Steph-Curry-withdrawal symptoms because she had no Golden State Warriors game to watch, and I thought, "Well, she's also a huge Clint Eastwood fan so I'll start CRY MACHO," that neither of us had seen, half expecting both of us would want to turn it off within the first 20 minutes. But it drew us both in. It does have some long conversations in dark light (among the complaints here), but the conversations serve the story and reveal character, and Eastwood has always liked dark lighting, so that's nothing new (Eastwood once said that too many TV sitcoms are lit like stadiums). At the end we both said, "That was good." My low expectations might have increased my enjoyment (a cinematic version of "under promise and over deliver"), but even with no preconceptions I think I still would have liked it.
  • kayjay-68052 - 3 December 2023
    Creaky
    I love Clint Eastwood films but this one just shows me that it's time he stayed behind the cameras. I watched a very old man looking like a very old frail man in this film. I found it totally implausible that the cafe owner would fall romantically for a man who is probably as old as her grandfather. I wanted to enjoy it but it was disappointing to watch a once great hero being mis cast in this role.

    The cinematography was high class, as we have come to expect from Eastwood films but the dialogue seemed somehow strained.

    In my opinion the male actors around Clint tried to avoid making him appear as a 91 year old man playing a part best suited to someone in their sixties.

    For my part, I hope that Clint Eastwood gives up playing roles like this because in my memories he's the man with no name and that was oh so long ago. We all have to come to terms with the fact that age catches up with us eventually and we have to accommodate it.