Gran Torino

When Walt gets angry and punches his hand through the glass cabinet, the glass is clearly a prop piece.

When Walt and Sue start to sit to talk on Walt's back porch, the boom mic appears ever so slightly.

In the scene where Thao goes along with Walt to the barbershop, the barber's jacket zipper changes position several times.

At the medical office, the physician introduces herself as Dr.

In the credits, she is Dr.

Chang.

Walt says he used the M1 Garand rifle in Korea.

Military personnel are usually not allowed to keep their service weapons.

However, some rifles, identified by serial number, were available for purchase through the Civilian Marksmanship Program after they were deemed obsolete or unfit for service.

Enlisted and commissioned personnel also frequently "liberated" their weapons.

Throughout the film, one of the balusters in the railing on the front porch of the Hmong house is missing.

At the end, when the brother and sister get into the Checker cab to go to the funeral, the house still has bullet holes and boarded up windows, but the missing baluster reappears.

When Walt goes downstairs during the barbecue, he places his beer on the washing machine.

In the next shot, the beer is in his hand.

When Walt drinks beer in Sue's kitchen, the level of the beer gets higher the longer he drinks it.

During Walt's second phone conversation about his medical records, a boom mike appears in Walt's son's house, above the kitchen table.

During the closing credits, with the prolonged shot of the cars driving by the lake, the Gran Torino appears a second time.

The medical form shows Walt's marital status as "married.

" The film opens with his wife's funeral.

It is Walt's first visit to the medical center since his wife died.

Based on the conversation with Dr.

Chu, it had been more than 3 years since his last visit (long enough that he wasn't aware that his former physician Dr.

Feldman had died, and been replaced by her).

With all that was going on in his life at the time of that visit, he could have simply forgotten to update his marital status.

After Walt punches in his kitchen cabinets and is sitting in the chair smoking, both of his knuckles are bleeding.

At one point his right hand appears without blood while his left is still bloody (dried at this point).

In another shot of the same scene, where he's talking with the priest, both hands are bloody again.

In the bathroom scene when he is bathing and smoking, the reflection of the camera man's legs are visible on the bathtub.

The Gran Torino's Michigan license plate number has 3 letters, followed by 3 numbers, then by 1 letter.

Michigan license plates have 3 letters followed by 4 numbers.

In McKay's office, Walt picks up 2 paper cups for coffee.

In the next shot, he is holding a single cup.

Walt has Thao paint the neighbors house.

The painted house is clearly visible at one stage.

Near the end of the movie, when Walt is mowing his lawn, the new layer of paint disappears.

When Walt is in the bar and the priest wants to talk to him, he takes off his hat with right hand, and his left hand is down.

In the next shot, both hands are on the table, and the hat is gone.

After Sue is raped, Walt comes home and punches through his cupboard doors.

The next day, when he is sitting in the kitchen with Thao, the cupboards in the background are undamaged.

While Walt is on the phone with his son, the medical forms show Detroit, and a Michigan ZIP code, but lists the state as California.

If you look closely, the California address is Walt's brother, as next of kin.

It is raining when Walt works with Thao, but the blue sky is reflected in the house windows.

Sometimes large patches of blue sky appear during rainfall.

When Walt touches the little girl's head, the Hmong react very negatively, and Sue tells him that is wrong.

Several scenes earlier, Kho Khue patted the baby's head, and no one reacted.

Certain elders have the right to touch people on the head, including an elder shaman performing a soul-calling ceremony during a birth celebration.

Also, when Sue musses Thao's hair in the back yard, she musses the side of his head, behind his ear, not the top.

When the Hmong gangbangers drive up to the Mexican gangbangers, Spider drives, forward, then drives in reverse without changing gears.

Then a break in the scene shows his car's backup lights.

- PLOTWhen Walt rescues Sue and Trey from the three thugs, he tells Trey that he should not have said "bro" to them.

This would have been impossible for him to know; he pulled up to the stop sign after the incident.

The sides of the folding chairs flip by the time Walt takes the 2 folding chairs from the basement to the upstairs; the curvatures of the chairs clearly show this.

When the Hmong ladies feed Walt in Sue's kitchen, Sue's mother Vu puts a large spoon into a bowl of salad, then moves to transfer the contents to Walt's plate, even though most of the salad fell out of the spoon back into the bowl.

Either the actress either didn't notice, or she decided to keep going with the scene.

In the church, Walt's grandchildren genuflect (kneel briefly and make sign of the cross while facing the altar).

In the Catholic religion, the cross is made with the right hand.

The granddaughter crosses herself with her left hand.

However, the grandchildren were established as disrespectful, both in attire and behavior (one even parodies the spoken prayer), so they could very likely use the wrong hand.

There is a scene during the reception for Walt's wife, at the house.

From the inside, looking through the front door, the sun is seen as shining strongly.

However, when they go outside (next scene), it is cloudy.

The front license plate on Walt's truck is missing.

Michigan doesn't require a front plate, but it looks it was recently removed.

That wouldn't make sense, since he likely bought the truck new.

Walt visits his doctor's office in February.

The calendar is open to June.

In the beginning we see that the houses around Walt need painting.

At 1:11:00, while the kid is gardening, we see the backs of the three houses next to Walt's that don't need paint.

When Walt rescues Sue and Trey from the three thugs, Sue and Walt drive away.

If you watch the buildings in the background, they drive by the same school more than once.

Walt's medical form lists date of birth as February 1930.

When his family celebrates his birthday with him, the grass is green, and he joins his neighbors for a cookout.

That isn't February in Detroit.

The medical forms list Walt's address as 5962 Delco St.

When Walt stands on his porch, his house number is 238.

The cigarette burn on Thao's face changes several times.

Kowalski's son gives him a Walker amplified phone, so the curly handset cord should be plugged into the side, not the back.

The gangsters are shown shooting up Thao's house with Mac-10 submachine guns, firing for twelve or thirteen seconds.

These weapons are known for their extremely high rate of fire, around 1,200 rounds per minute.

The gangsters should have run out of ammunition after around two seconds, or at the very least paused to reload.

When the priest goes to Walt's place and they share a beer, Walt originally holds his cigarette and his beer in his left hand, then they both jump into his right hand.

In the bathroom scene, Walt says to the dog to give him a break because it's the first time he's ever smoked in the house.

Actually, he smoked the night before when Father Janovich was with him inside the house and they also drank beer.

And yes, they didn't stand a chance. One of the most unexpected endings and I would say this is the brilliant ending to the wonderful movie.

Recently watched this again after seeing it when it came out. Clint Eastwood is excellent, the story really is touching and well told.

''Gran Torino'', Clint Eastwood's latest acting and directing attempt is an astounding one. He delivers in so many ways that if I said all of them, this review would be 5 pages worth of content.

Is it me? Is there something wrong with me?

This movie is not what you would call a masterpiece, but it ranks right up there among the best. As others have stated, it's a movie you can watch over and over and still enjoy.

I saw the film and it was unbelievable. Clint Eastwood will have you laughing so hard you almost pee yourself while at the same time breaking your heart and making you want to cry.

As Clint Eastwood reaches the end of his life, he presents us with yet another performance which is nothing short of legendary. Wishing to preserve the element of surprise, I will not reveal anything by trying to analyse this great work of art.

When i first started watching the movie, my expectations were low.. at the beginning i thought, well this might be one of the movies where good acting compensates for the lack of a good plot.

Clint Eastwood's thinking about anything but retirement as he released no less than two movies this year. It's rumored that this will be his swan song when it comes to acting.