A pretty good suspense movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2003)

Contains Spoiler Robin Williams and Al Pacino gave classic performances. This movie got great reviews all around the board, and it was pretty much well deserved. It had 3 Academy Award winners (Hilary Swank also, who, by the way, I can't stand) and it was directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento").
The movie differs from other mysteries because here you know who the killer is - Williams. The story here is about the chase.
It was about a good cop with one small blemish on his reputation, and it was being dug up, when he was sent to Alaska with a partner to find Robin Williams, the murderer. Swank is also a cop, from Alaska.
Really good movie, more of a psychological suspense thriller, but it did deliver the action. I was doubting it at one point, but then it got really good, and the ending was spectacular. It's pretty much how I would have written to ending, so I liked that.
The only complaint I have pretty much (besides the fact that her bag was found near the house...why was her school bag with her on a Friday night after she was drinking?) was that the producers (George Clooney and Steven Sodenbergh) thought that Pacino should've been Spider-Man instead of Tobey MacGuire. For a 60-year-old detective who hadn't slept in over 100 hours, he was amazing.
8.5/10. It's well worth checking out.