Simultaneously released to theaters and the HBO Max streaming service, Cry Macho is a screenplay written by N. Richard Nash. After various rejections he turned his screenplay into a novel (released in 1975) and then spent the following decades trying to get it made into a movie. He died in 2000 having sold his screenplay but would never see the results on film.
Though it has had many attempts to be brought to the silver screen, starring such names as Burt Reynolds, Pierce Brosnan and most recently Arnold Swartzenagger, this movie finally arrived in September of 2021 directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
Cry Macho is the story of a retired American rodeo star named Mike Milo (Eastwood) who is sent across the southern border to find and bring back his friend’s estranged teenage son from Mexico where he lives with his mother, kind of. Turns out he lives on the streets.
Clint Eastwood seems like a pretty cool guy, but he is way too old to be portraying this character. A geriatric ninety one year old man is not the person you send into a dangerous area of Mexico to track down and bring back your estranged, street wise teenage son.
This already ridiculous plot gets even more ludacris as things go sideways when his truck breaks down. He can’t get his friend’s son back to the U.S., so he decides to earn some money by breaking wild horses because, you know, 91 year old cowboys are physically capable of doing that kind of stuff. *que the pulled back wide shot of a stand in actor (probably a stunt man) riding a wild, bucking horse.
Then he falls for a young Mexican woman that takes care of him. His love for her is awkward at first until he realizes that this young widow has grandchildren and that makes her old enough to be with him!
I found nothing to enjoy in this film. Cry Macho is slow paced, poorly written, casted and acted. A complete waste of time. It’s 104 minutes of your life you’ll never get back. Save yourself and do not waste time or money on this B grade film.
Movie score: 17%
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