Mystic Trickle

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2004)

Excellent cast and performances, wonderful directing... too bad they didn't have a story to tell. And it's not because there was no happy ending, I don't need the hero to get a touchdown or the happy puppy licking the face, but I do want resolution and that is one thing this film does not offer. Was it supposed to make me think? Well it did... I am still wondering what it was supposed to be about.
I love Sean Penn, his acting and his politics. Tim Robbins is one of the highest on my American heroes list, but I just don't get this one. And Larry Fishburne... what can I say, he's the man. All of them gave stellar performances, but the film moves into a pretense of shifting character relationships in the conclusion and whatever point it was trying to make was mired in unresolved innuendo.
A lot of effort and talent went into a film that IMO evoporates into an insubstancial trickle.