Cheap "shocker" ending to cover bad story telling

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2005)

Good performances by Swank and Freeman. Morgan Freeman seems incapable of turning in a bad performance. Mr. Freeman deserves many more Oscars than this one on his mantle piece. Unfortunately, Eastwood was unable to come up with an ending to this movie that grew out of the script. The "shocker" ending was a lame attempt to glue on an interesting ending which had little to do with the rest of the story Eastwood had just spent a couple of hours telling us. It was an interesting ending. However, it simply was the ending to a different movie which could have dealt honestly and in depth with the issues of disability, assisted suicide and euthanasia. It is sad that as successful as Eastwood is he does not have the courage to follow a script through to it's logical conclusion. Thumbs way, way down.