The world has changed dramatically in the fifty-seven years since A Fistful of Dollars premiered, but at least one thing remains constant: Clint Eastwood starring as a lone cowboy in a Western. This time it’s in his 44th directorial effort, Cry Macho, and that deserves appreciation, caveats notwithstanding.
Eastwood plays Mike Milo, a former rodeo star and washed-up horse trainer who spends his waning days alone in late ‘70s-era Texas. When his old boss and quasi benefactor calls in a favor and asks Milo to retrieve his teenage son from Mexico, Milo sets off to steal the boy away from his well-connected and unpredictable mother to make good on his moral debt. On the way back, the two forge a bond (thanks in part to the boy’s cockfighting rooster, Macho), and Milo recaptures some of what the long, hard years stripped away.
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