Clint Eastwood delivers the goods bigtime!

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2004)

What a fabulous movie. Clint Eastwood has become so multi-talented since his days gracing the big screen in a poncho and a stubby cigar...squinting across the plains of central Italy for Sergio Leone. He even did the musical score in Mystic River! I can't recall the last time I saw so many Oscar-worthy
performances simultaneous in the same film. The raw emotion conveyed by all
the principal characters, and right down to the supporting cast, did this well- scripted story justice. In my view, the only facet of this movie that kept it from "perfection" was the seemingly unrealistic manner in which the Boston Police
seemed to tolerate the vicious treatment of Sean Penn's character's underworld henchmen. I found it a bit of a jarring suspension of disbelief in what was otherwise a wonderful story. 9/10.