I'm embarrassed to have watched it. Horrible cast, horrible script. Seemed more like a low budget travel film.
shareIt's based on a true story
shareI know. And Eastwood used the actual three guys. And the movie is awful.
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Well, he wanted to use the actual guys since they were willing, the problem is that this incident was something that's really hard to make a movie around. So you have like 10 minutes of the train incident and 80 minutes of backstory of the three dudes played by terrible child actors, with terrible dialogue. And the three actual guys did a great thing, but their acting was atrocious, especially Spenser.
shareI knew nothing about this movie going in and I ended up leaving about 45 minutes in. I can only remember leaving one other movie early (Superhero Movie which was awful) but everything about this felt so subpar.
When I got home I read up on it and was shocked that Clint Eastwood directed it since it seemed so amateurish. I see this more as a tribute to their bravery and I respect what Eastwood was trying to do in using the actual people but this (at least the first half that I saw) really missed the mark.
I was going to watch this yesterday but when I read he cast the real blokes I decided to give it a miss.
He should have dubbed Frankie Valli's voice in for Jersey Boys too.