What a film!!!

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2009)

This is a film that you just can't take your eyes off. It has everything a good film should have and moves you in ways that may surprise you. Angelina Jolie is excellent and you totally believe she is experiencing these things. John Malkovich as Reverend Gustav Briegleb, is very good and believable, Michael Kelly as detective Lester Ybarra, is also perfectly cast. But the honour should surely go to Clint Eastwood who directs this film with such pace that what would normally be too long for a film seems too short. At the end you may feel a little cheated and wish it could have continued, I know I did. The young actor playing the child accomplice is also really good and you feel his emotion. I cannot recommend this film enough and despite some errors and artistic licence it tells what must have been a truly harrowing story of this poor woman's plight.