Overrated Overrated Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2008)

Why is this movie overrated? Two words: Angelina Jolie. She is wildly miscast. Those puffy lips are really distracting. But mostly I was annoyed at her smirking. Why is she sitting in the courtroom smirking? All she does through the movie is smirk! And say "I want my son back!" We get it. I also get that Clint Eastwood is a bit of a perv. WHAT is with that long drawn out execution scene? My friend and I had to keep our hands over our eyes for about 10 minutes. But this movie loves violence. Note the fact that it is shown how the killer kept and killed the little boys but completely left out the real-life molestation of them. I mean, that would make the story (and it was) even MORE unpleasant but it's weird how the filmmakers decided to eliminate the "sex" (such as it was) but leave in the horrid, horrid violence. I got the feeling that Eastwood and Co. really enjoyed the absolutely nauseating way these boys were eliminated.