It's a callback to To Hell and Back, where Audie Murphy played himself in during WWII. The three heroes aren't the best actors, but they do better than half the cast of the last Star Wars movie.
A bit dull, the story traces the three from their childhoods as misfit children, trying to make something of their lives. Eschewing Ritalin, Eastwood avoids any glamorization of teachers, which is far more subversive than anything Guillermo Del Toro has ever done.
We all know guys like these, who want to be soldiers their whole lives, and don't really fit in at school, at least partially, because they simply aren't interested. Back when I was a kid, they all wore camo and Kill a Commie for Mommy T-shirts.
Clint inserts an individualist vs. bureaucracy theme throughout the movie. This was very popular in the 60's, 70's and 80's, but Hollywood stopped caring about individualism long ago, so this theme is almost completely absent from movies for years. It's refreshing to see.
They go on a trip to Europe, and stop a terrorist.
I didn't fall asleep, and that's the important thing.
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