Clint Eastwood directs and stars as a fading cowboy who travels to Mexico to bring a young boy home to his father in the US. The triteness of a crusty old man and his unlikely friendship with a youngster is compounded by a simplistic script that’s steeped in hackneyed clichés. Their journey has challenges that are always conveniently dispatched, while the dialogue is sometimes an embarrassment of the obvious. This potentially tense conflict ambles its way into a sentimental story that quietly fades out. 
(1.5 / 5)
