WOW...outstanding all the way around

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2010)

This is one of those movies that blows you away in every part of the movie experience. Clint Eastwood did a brilliant job of directing. Michael Straczynski outstanding writing (from a man who has written a lot of good stuff). Angelina Jolie became the role so well that she seemed natural, and she looks brilliant in 1930s getup. She deserved the Oscar for this (Winslet got it for the Reader, not as good a movie) Ohh and Jeffrey Donovan did such a great job of being a bad guy that you actually start to hate him.
I do not want to give hardly anything away.
I will say that a good movie tells a story. Great movies have multiple themes, this movie manages to tell 3 powerful stories. They center around the struggle of a single woman trying to find her child.
More and more I appreciate movies shot in a certain period of Americana, they spared no expense here. Cars, clothes, advertisements even the little things like period skates, mailboxes and matches. This should have won Oscar for cinematography...was WAY better than winner Slumdog millionaire.
What is incredible is that it is based on a true story...holy smokes!! Has some scary parts so not recommended for kids under 13...uless you want to use it as a warning for stranger danger.
Outstanding!!