Film Review: Cry Macho is marred by exposition and forced intimacy

"...Eastwood himself never seems wholly comfortable in a part that seems to have been written for a much younger man..."

Cry Macho with Clint Eastwood for Declan Burke film review

Cry Macho *** 

“I don’t know how to cure old,” says Mike Milo (Clint Eastwood) during Cry Macho (12A), offering a glimpse of self-awareness that is sorely lacking for much of the film. A washed-up rodeo star, Mike is persuaded to drive from Texas to Mexico City to bring home Rafo (Eduardo Minett), the 13-year-old son of his boss Howard (Dwight Yoakum). Finding Rafo is the easy part, but once the unlikely pair start driving back to Texas, Mike discovers that Rafo is an unbroken colt who isn’t going to be easily tamed.