Naff

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2015)

The early part of this film is OK but as the 'story' unfolds it becomes a bit of a farce. The Neil Harris lake section was completely unnecessary plus it added an extra painful 15 minutes to what was already becoming a long film. The holes in the plot were at times gaping, leaving me amazed at how this got to be the case. Affleck does what Affleck do, kind of does the emotion without really portraying it with any depth. Support characters were so-so though the defence lawyer had something about him as did the lead detective, everyone else i've already forgotten about. Its a pity because this could have been a half decent film but was sadly let down by a pretty poor script, plot inconsistencies and being overly long. OK to watch on a long haul flight when you're driven to distraction with boredom otherwise i wouldn't bother. Finally the IMDb score yet again bears no relation to the actual quality of the film,. i've scored it a 4 which i think is fair, 5 at a stretch but to have a score of over 8 is just plain ridiculous.