Not your average mystery movie, but still great!

Rating: Null/10 (14 February 2004)

***minor spoilers ahread*** I just saw this movie yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised with Clint Eastwood's direction. The movie was amazingly well made, with what I found to be great camera work, and wonderful actors. Sean Penn and Marcia Gay Harding stood out as the great actors that they are. The movie really made me want to read the book, something that few novel-adapted movies can do for me, and I was absolutely amazed at how they pulled off the strange twist ending. The movie was also free of plotholes, something I was grateful for, given that mystery movies are normally a little confusing. Mystic River kept me on the edge of my seat, and I give it 9/10.