Gone, baby don't!

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2007)

Terrible, it would have been a mediocre movie at best, if it were not for some illogical points in the "story" and bad acting on the part played by Casey Affleck.
Now here is the spoiler in the next few lines. If you really do want to see this movie (trust me you don't), then read this after you've seen it..
This movie started out pretty raw and it does tug at your heart strings since it has issues with kids in it. At first I thought it was some sort of shock movie. One of those for lack of a better story, pushing the sock value (you've seen them before).
I got to hand one thing to Ben. First time I was left watching a detective story thinking that the protagonist was a total frigging idiot! Give me Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade! This guy is a "detective" with an IQ of a rock.
The story has a few holes it in that make it fall apart. It got worse and worse about 3/4 into the movie.
#1 He just shot the pedophile killer in the head and killed him. I didn't shed any tears for the guy, okay the guy deserved it. But then it doesn't explain how he got away with this murder. It left me thinking that "okay, they must have made up a story with Remy to make it all self defense..".
Then the movie reaches it denouement, thinking there was some terrible conspiracy for money, only to find that the bad guys were not so bad after all.
Then the detective does what does not make any sense at all, and gives up the child back to the drug addict mother. Just after the three cops basically gave up their careers, two of them their lives (one directly), not to mention several other people that either lied or gave up $130k in interest of the child. Makes even less sense, when he commits murder in a previous scene and gets away with it, but then he's morally inclined to take the child way from new loving adoptive (albeit illegal) parents. Not to mention sending the good retired Chief and wife to prison.. And then a few more final scenes that points out that he was even more of an idiot, and that what other people were telling him.
Now all of this nonsensical line would have made sense (every movie need not have a "happy ending" after all), but Casey Affleck just didn't bring it. Just maybe, it would have made some sort of melodramatic sense if he could have pulled it off right.
No offense to the other reviewers, but Ben must have paid them well.
I'm off to watch "The Maltese Falcon" to wash the bad taste out of my mouth before I pluck my eyes out after watching this movie..