[Skybird]

Eastwood's early Westerns and Dirty Harry are cool entertainment, but his real greatness I see shining in his works of age and when he started as a director. The Bridges of Madison County, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Babe, Gran Torino, are masterpieces that rank very high on my list of all-time favourites. Dirty ol' Callaghan is cool, and I often watch him when TV repeats those movies although I know them all - but it gives me just two hours of pointless entertainment, which is okay if not expecting more. Eastwood's late works give something more satisfying than just that. The often hailed Mystic River, however, I found to be overestimated, and his two movies on Iwo Jima also did not convince me.