Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Mystic River:

Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" is a dark, brooding and painfully truthful film about two crimes that impacts and intertwines lives of three men. The story centers on Jimmy (Sean Penn), Dave (Tim Robbins), and Sean (Kevin Bacon) boyhood friends whose lives are forever changed when they witness Dave being lured into a car, taken away and assaulted for several days before he escapes.

Moving forward 25 years the three men are reunited when Jimmy's 19 year old daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) is found brutally... more info

A CLASSIC TRAGEDY:

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MYSTIC RIVER plays like a modern day Greek tragedy, full of pathos, remorse, guilt, failure in love, etc. Brian Helgeland is to be commended for his faithful adaptation of Dennis Lehane's brilliant book. Clint Eastwood is to be commended for his superb direction, getting remarkable performances from his outstanding cast. Those who didn't like this movie probably aren't the kind who like a slower moving film, and one that can ultimately only end tragically, with no resolutions firmly established. I... more info

Stale As Month-Old Potato Chips:

I was quite surprised at how bad this movie was. Perhaps it was just me, but I was looking forward to a Unforgiven-type directoral masterpiece from Mr. Eastwood and the stars Robbins and Penn. Given the hype this movie recieved (and the oscar nods to its 2 main stars and director Eastwood) I was really ready to sink my viewing teeth into something substantial.

Unfortunately, this movie was as stale as a bag of month-old potato chips. I never really came to symphathize at all with Sean Penn's character,... more info

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