A Masterpiece...Eastwood's best since Unforgiven!!!

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2003)

Mystic River is a cinematic masterpiece. At once haunting and serene, Mystic River manages to give is viewers a sense of closure in the end while maintaining its depressing tone throughout the length of the movie. Penn, Robbins, Fishburne, Bacon, Linney and Gay-Harden provide superlative performances,while struggling with the South Boston accent, yet in the end that hardly matters as their characters are brought to life. Tim Robbins has excelled himself once again after the Shawshank Redemption as Dave, the tortured soul who is unable to forget the tormented four days in his childhood when he was abducted by a pedophile. As a whole, Mystic River is an excellant adaptation of the novel and Eastwood does an excellant job of using the South Boston neighborhood to complement his storytelling.