Simply a bad movie.

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2003)

Mystic River is a bad movie. There is no denying it. It is a poor movie in all its glorius aspects. The script is nothing to write home about and tends to drag and leave important aspects of the story untouched. It is shallow and never delves into the true psychological nature of the characters and their situautions. The directing is also, as I have sad before, bad. Eastwood does little to entice the audience and will go down in history as the only director ever to pull a bad performance out of Sean Penn. As for acting, well I have already mentioned Seany-boy, but as for the rest: Tim Robbins is simply horrible, Laurence Fishburne is poorly utilized and Kevin Bacon... well, lets just say that if you have the previous three actors in a movie and Kevin Bacon comes out on top with the best performance, you got a heck-of-a-lot of problems. Unless you go to the movies to pay no attention to the movie entirely, skip this one.