Mystic leaves a lot to be desired

Rating: 2/10 (9 January 2005)

Starts off OK, but Eastwood doesn't develop the characters 'full enough', outside of the 3 primary guys. Only Fishburne gets some attention, while all the wives/children/and any others outside of Bacon/Penn/Robbins characters get very little descriptions. When Penn's daughter is murdered, he's sobbing away, but I don't think most of the audience have much emotion, since we don't know her too well, and never do. Same with the girl's boyfriend and his family...and all 3 of those actors' wives in the film seem to be floating about... After all the hoopla on this movie, I was disappointed. While the acting is good, I didn't think either Penn or Robbins did an 'academy' job by any standards. Good, but not great.