The Mule (2018)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 116 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper and Michael Peña
IMDb score:
7,0 (167.785)
Releasedate: 14 December 2018
The Mule plot
"Nobody Runs Forever"
Earl Stone is a lonely elderly man who works as a florist. He is not doing well financially, so he is forced to close the business. Then he gets a proposal to earn money as a drug courier for the Mexican drug cartel. This puts him in the crosshairs of, among others, the DEA agent Colin Bates.
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Actors and actresses
Earl Stone
Agent Colin Bates
Special Agent in Charge
Agent Treviño
Mary
Latón
Julio
Ginny
Iris
Tim Kennedy
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Donkerwoud
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- 8696 messages
- 3961 votes
I have a soft spot for the artist who gives the world one last message just before his or her death (or due to illness). Whether it's novelist Gabriel García Márquez with the novel 'Remembrance of My Sorrowful Whoren' (2004) or country singer Johnny Cash with his phenomenal country cover of 'Hurt (2002). Or, more recently, with the latest albums by Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. 'The Mule' (2018) isn't even a particularly original or good film, but works because Clint Eastwood shows and directs his own age with it. How his iconic, grooved film face has become a ripple landscape and how his raspy grunt voice hardly commands any more authority. Such a toned-down protagonist does not belong to a 'man without a name' who settles situations with revolver fights. Like a drug mule is a pawn of powers that are actually at the controls, here good old Clint is a man whose life has gone by too fast and no longer knows how to turn the tide. All he has left is acceptance of the inevitable. With 'The Mule' (2018), Clint Eastwood finally made another film in which he questions his conservative side with a healthy dose of self-reflection and a critical reflection on his own place in the world. As the imperfect human that we will recall in eulogies in the near future.
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yeyo
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- 6358 messages
- 4629 votes
Well, 'swan song'. Bronco Billy (1980) basically was. Actually, Eastwood's filmography of the past 40 years has been one long eulogy. The Mule takes it one step further, the film feels more like a reincarnation than a goodbye. It's not for nothing that The Mule starts with a beautiful ceremony, thank you for the flowers, Clint is the guest of honor at his own funeral. An ellipse brings us abruptly to the present, where Clint wanders in a sort of purgatory and haunts millennials. I don't understand why people call this film 'classic' or 'conventional', this is very avant-garde, cinema as a rebirth. Not post-modern, but post-mortem.
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Theunissen
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- 12281 messages
- 5520 votes
"2005, Internet. Who needs it?"
Despite the now advanced age of actor/director Clint Eastwood, he remains an iconic personality for me (was one of my favorite actors in the last century) and I continue to watch his films and usually have fun with them.
That entertainment also applies to this Crime / Drama film, despite it being quite clichéd and the story also having a very predictable course. There's quite a bit of drama in it, but it doesn't really make any sense at all. Despite the fact that Clint Eastwood (in the role of white elderly anti-hero Earl Stone from the Midwest, where Mexicans are still called "bean eaters", African Americans are "negro people" and women whore or madonna. Furthermore, he has nothing to do with contemporary techniques such as Internet and Smartphones) is now 88 years old, he is still doing well on the silver screen (in my case a television screen) and I even had to laugh at his humor here and there, such as:
"You're playing like you're the Fuhrer";
"Great, my Commandant";
"Well, this is good. Helping you Negro folks out";
"Oh, you're gals, huh ? Gals ? Come on, old-timer, we're dykes on bikes".
I also liked to see how he dealt with the women (or rather hookers) in the story and his singing along to old-fashioned songs in the car (or rather pick-up truck) was also quite funny. The rest of the cast is also doing quite well, such as Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest and Robert LaSardo, and polka singer Mollie Busta might have been there.
Normally I'd rate this movie 3.0*, but because of Clint Eastwood I'm giving it a half higher, so it's 3.5*.
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