8/10 Great film, 100% SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2006)

I really enjoyed this film but the first time I watched it I found myself turning it off in the middle (an almost unheard of act) and completing my evening re watching 'The Duel' (the first tale in the Hornblower miniseries). The following day I reflected on my actions and with much introspection came to the conclusion that the reason I had turned it off at the point I realized the inevitability of the murder was because I was inwardly revolted by what was about to happen.
I watched the film through to it's end at 4 AM the next morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was not upset that Chris Wilton had gotten away with a double murder. I was not upset that the totally innocent neighbor was killed as 'collateral damage'. I wasn't even upset over the concept of a man using murder to solve a domestic problem (I can think of a number of people whose spouses should be held justified and therefore blameless for their murders).
What I discovered was that I had so objectified either Scarlett Johansson or Nola Rice (I'm not sure which) that my mind had rebelled at what it saw as an act of ultimate evil; the wasting of an absolute babe. The act had apparently so horrified me that I ran to one of my icons of purity and goodness; the character of the 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower.
Go figure!