excellent

Rating: 7/10 (27 February 2003)

I found this movie to be a big cut above the run-of-the-mill shoot-em-up thrillers churned out nowadays. The creepy atmosphere of this remote Alaskan town in the far north country where the sun never sets is captured very well and creates an unsettled and unnerving undercurrent. Pacino's and William's work is very good here. The story, in addition to being a superb crime drama, is an excellently crafted tale of moral ambiguity, as the policeman's fate becomes slowly and inexorably conflated with that of the perpetrator. A movie for grownups, I think.