Well done by Eastwood

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2003)

This is done in a European way, whatever that means. It's however a complicated story, with persons definitely not in black and white and it puts complicated questions about a complicated morality.
Besides it is very well performed, especially by Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon, but also by the rest of the cast. Penn is all the movie on the level to explode while Bacon is acting by small means, concerning his way of speaking, looking at people and so on. He is also near an explosion, but it isn't that obvious.
You feel quite uncomfortable together with all these tough feelings and you will definitely not feel unshaken when you leave the movie house. Probably Clint Eastwood's best film so far. He is really getting the respect he deserves now. Or maybe it hasn't been until now that he deserved it.