Earl Stone (Eastwood) is a down on his luck horticulturist whose business and passion has been ruined by changing times and the Internet. He becomes a drug runner out of necessity but grows to enjoy the money and the thrill. Eastwood looks every wrinkle the part and shuffles his way through the performance in a most engaging way.

Poster art to the contrary, the cast is filled with heavyweights like Bradley Cooper and Michael Peña as DEA agents, Dianne Wiest as Stone’s long suffering ex-wife and Andy Garcia as the benevolent leader of the cartel. They all deliver fine performances but there is no doubt it’s Eastwood’s film, both behind and in front of the camera.

The film gets its comments on the disposability and invisibility of the elderly spot on and yet never feels preachy. There are some very emotional scenes as Stone reconnects with his lost family. Also in a life is stranger than fiction reality, you have to read the Wikipedia listing for Leo Sharp, his plea to the judge for leniency is a classic.

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Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for the cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler.

But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl’s past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it’s uncertain if he’ll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel’s enforcers, catch up to him.

THE MULE, in cinemas January 24.
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