Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Run Time: 2 Hours and 18 Minutes
Trailer
Notable Cast
Sean Penn ... Jimmy Markum
Tim Robbins ... Dave Boyle
Kevin Bacon ... Sean Devine
Laurence Fishburne ... Whitey Powers
Marcia Gay Harden ... Celeste Boyle
Laura Linney ... Annabeth Markum
Tim Robbins ... Dave Boyle
Kevin Bacon ... Sean Devine
Laurence Fishburne ... Whitey Powers
Marcia Gay Harden ... Celeste Boyle
Laura Linney ... Annabeth Markum
Plot
Three friends (Jimmy, Dave, and Sean) grew up in Boston. Jimmy and Sean witnesses their friend Dave being taken away [abducted]. Eventually getting out of the abuse that he was subjected to, Dave grows up with mental instability. When Jimmy's oldest daughter Katie's car is found smashed (and Katie found beaten to death), everyone looks for her killer. Sean is on the case as a homicide detective and Dave seems to be a suspect. Will they find the killer? Will justice be served? How will this affect the three friends?
Official MPAA Rating (According to
IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute
waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of
something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but
could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly
amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all
around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2.5/5 - *SPOILERS* I originally was going to rate this a 3/5 but, upon review watching the trailer, I have changed that to a 2.5/5. The reason being the fact that Dave had mental instability and no one, not even his wife!, listened to him. He had said that the reason he had blood on him was that he saw a pedophile behind a place and killed him, but it also happened on the night that Katie was killed. Since no one backed up his story, his wife started distancing herself from him. Jimmy, gone crazy because his daughter's killer(s) were still on the loose, started connected dots that seemed to go in line and acted upon it without questioning if he was right.
This is where Jimmy realizes what he did was wrong:
Why the movie doesn't end here and why Sean doesn't arrest Jimmy for what he did (though he never said what he did, but indicated through "you going to send $ per month" like Jimmy did for another family), I don't understand. Dave's wife gets no closure, Jimmy goes free, and there's a parade to make people think that "we're moving on with our lives and let's keep the skeletons in the closet because we're a neighborhood". WTF. Honestly, it should have ended with Jimmy going to jail for killing his friend and cut out the parade scene, even though Dave's wife seems guilty for not believing him either. Maybe that was the point of the ending - everyone has some sort of guilt that they have to live with (but why did Sean NOT arrest Jimmy?!).
This frustrates me so much.... I wouldn't recommend this movie, especially for the lack of respect towards those with PTSD and emotional/mental instability.
That's my movie review. Thanks for reading. More reviews to come eventually.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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