My wife and I thought the movie was wonderful. We liked all of the actors and the premise. Some might think it ran a little slow but we thought the pace was fine. The connecting of the dots was inevitable but and we had fun trying to figure out how Eastwood would accomplish that.
I thought the movie was contrived and predictable. Watching Roarke was interesting and almost unrecognizable from his former self and maybe deserved an award but I thought it was a "Rocky" sort of movie and very predictable.