Disappointing ending

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2004)

Spoilers
Sean Penn provides a heap of anguish and anger, but the plot just didn't pull together enough to deserve a very high rating. I found it interesting up to the last quarter of the movie, despite my having a difficult time understanding a lot of the mumbled Boston accented dialog (maybe the DVD will have captions) but the ending was a big disappointment, killing your childhood friend for a crime he didn't commit is apparently OK by everyone (widow included). Laura Linney's speech about how it was supportive of his little girls for him to murder an innocent man was just goofy. Too damn long also. I am mystified at the high overall rating of this movie.