Changeling wince

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2009)

I love Clint. I wanted to love this. I didn't. I wanted to agree with all the other glowing reviews on here but I can't. Angelina's cartoon like lips dominated the screen to the point where they began to grate. Hats off to Clint. The film looked amazing. The isolation of her character was intense and very well drawn but the constant close attention to her face just moved attention away from other characters (who were hugely reduced) and from the story. Sadly when they did appear they were not wholly appealing. The police were one dimensional characters of stock "we've been caught with our provincial pants down" plot lines and the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" scenes in the psychiatric ward were less harrowing and more hackneyed. The best scenes were from the mother of the returning child, who escaped from the serial killer and the trial and enquiry running together. However, if I had been the Changeling, I would have stayed at home rather than live with those lips. Sorry Clint.