The Mule - Movie Reviews (2024)

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Is it worth watching The Mule? ›

It's a watchable movie, loosely based on a true story. There is a nice storytelling swing to it and Eastwood is frankly far more interesting than Robert Redford was in his recent swansong. Not that this is necessarily Clint's acting swansong, not by any means.

The Mule is ultimately the journey of an emotionally-burdened man seeking purpose. Eastwood's tragic hero dedicates his entire life to nothing but horticulture and when internet-driven modernization takes away his job, Earl is reduced to a hopeless and solitary drifter.

A 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel. This is the latest directorial effort from Clint Eastwood, and his second of 2018. It is based on the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran who worked with the cartel.

Leo Sharp died at the age of 92 on December 12, 2016, two years before The Mule's release. Sharp was allowed to live outside federal prison for roughly 16 months before his death.

The film co-stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest, and Andy García. This was Eastwood's first acting project since 2012, and his first starring leading role in a film directed by himself since 2008.

Earl Stone's introspective journey in The Mule ends with a tragic yet peaceful conclusion in prison, finding purpose and redemption at last. Earl, a morally upright man, chooses to face the consequences of his drug mule past, seeking peace and reconciling with his family in the end.

The 88 year old Clint Eastwood who apparently has enough wits about him to keep a driver's license decides at the suggestion of a guest at his daughter's wedding to do some driving for friends who will pay him well, very well.

In the movie The Mule, what was the moral of the story? - Quora. that the female world of relationships and love is what lasts and gives meaning to existence.

The main thrust of the plot isn't anything special but Eastwood seems to be using it to examine his own personal failings which gives the movie a deeply sad undercurrent.

He doesn't know that the DEA (led by Colin Bates, played by Bradley Cooper) has an informer in the mix and is on the tail of the vaunted drug mule called “Tata.” That means “grandpa” in Spanish, but Bates doesn't know to look for a skinny old white guy.

Did Clint Eastwood serve in the military? ›

The acclaimed actor was also in the military. In 1951 Eastwood was drafted into the Army during the Korean War. He was a swimming instructor at Fort Ord, California. Clint Eastwood in his Army uniform during the Korean War.

The Mule was filmed in Georgia, specifically in the cities of Atlanta, Rome, and Augusta. Additional filming was done in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This is the first film Eastwood has shot in Georgia—he also used the state as a location for his films Richard Jewell and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Based, if you can believe it, on a true story, The Mule draws us into the misadventures of Ray, a good-hearted idiot who agrees to play mule under pressure from his drug-running mate, Gavin.

Toby Keith hatches a plan for remaining forever young — in spirit, at least — with “Don't Let the Old Man In,” a slow-moving acoustic ballad that soundtracks a scene in Clint Eastwood's new movie, The Mule.

Clint Eastwood's impressive career may be coming to a close. The actor, director, and filmmaker just wrapped up his final film called Juror No. 2.