Forgetaboutit

Rating: 2/10 (1 March 2008)

Private detective Patrick Kenzie (Affleck) takes on a missing baby case and has a really big decision to make. Can you guess?
Ever notice that movies that have Boston as a setting have the characters use the really deep Boston accent in the beginning and then later on everyone forgetsaboutit? Huh?
Also, ever notice that in his early movie days Marlon Brando took on roles whereby it took some getting used to his speech patterns? Well, I don't know if Casey Affleck will attain Brando status, but something needs to be addressed as his words slide unintelligibly sideways out of his mouth. Yes, I had to use the Rewind on the DVD to get what he said. Then I got tired of that and said the heck with it and I just put my ears into SLURRY mode and made out so-so. Not good. At this point Mr. Affleck is not a Marlon Brando or even a James Dean if anyone remembers him.
The production was okay, but the dark night scenes were really too dark to a point I would rather have the camera focus on someone we can see sitting somewhere listening to all the commotion and reacting to those sounds than to try to figure out who is on the screen and what is he doing etc.well you get the idea. That would help eliminate eye-strain.
Amy Ryan was up for Best Supporting actress and did not get it. Why was she nominated in the first place? Her performance was okay but we see this character all the time on cop shows on TV. Nothing new or exciting here. The performances of the rest of the cast were good, but when Titus Welliver (Lionel McCready) was on screen I kept getting distracted by his overly bushy mustache. I wanted to pull it off, brush crumbs off it, put a match to it. It was that bushy.
I think the only time we will see more of Morgan Freeman is when someone does a documentary about him. His screen appearances are nothing but GOLD but we always only see bits of him in movies. Why?
The story was good, lost some continuity in places and had two anti-climatic scenes (when I thought it was over, it was not). However, the movie had one big flaw in it: Casey Affleck is not a Leading Man and that is the reason this is a forgettable movie. Sad to say but he had no chemistry with anyone he was in any scene with. Enough said. But, to be fair he was better in the Assassination of Jesse James film.
Almost forgot. The title could have been better.
Violence:Yes; Sex:No; Nudity:No; Language: Yes, and the movie seems to bring in some really nasty terms too.