Dreadfully Bad

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2008)

Spoiler Alert So the sanctimonious prick lead character can murder someone in cold blood and participate in a drug deal but also feels the moral compulsion to turn in the good-hearted cop who was trying to offer that poor little girl a better life? God that was stupid!
Why are critics praising the acting in this film? Casey Affleck was horrible! Ed Harris was ridiculously over the top. Morgan Freeman phoned in his performance. And really, how hard is it to pretend to be a bad mother?
Ben Affleck is no better behind the camera than in front of it. His script is full of some of the worst dialog this side of The Phantom Menace, and while I won't blame the story on him as it is based on a novel, it was boring and preposterous! And while I commend the use of Guns N' Roses music in any film you should probably avoid having lyrics play directly over dialog, even if it is inane dialog.
If you can't tell, I hated this movie.