Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (17 February 2015)

Many other reviewers have documented the holes in the plot, so I won't bother going over those. But I do want to add a few comments:
1. Why do directors have to make it so hard to understand what the actors are saying? The sequences where Nick and Amy meet and get to know each other, in particular, are covered by the musical score to the point where the dialogue is lost. Maybe the director wants us to listen more intently to what is said but, if so, the technique failed, because I missed a lot of character motivation and plot points.
2. The whole manipulative and exploitive media angle has been used to death in a host of other movies and television. Hey, look...an actress doing a really good imitation of Nancy Grace. Likewise for the Johnnie Cochran impression by Tyler Perry. Ho hum.
3. Amy pulls into her driveway, stumbles out covered in blood, and collapses in Nick's arms (nice "dip", Amy) for the assembled multitude. When did this mystery/drama turn into a comedy?
I give the movie 3 stars out of 10, one for each of the actresses portraying the lead detective and Nick's sister (the only sympathetic characters in the story) and one for the Desi's vacation home in the woods (very impressive!). Otherwise, the movie was overly long and "icky".