Getting away with murder in Hollywood.

Rating: Null/10 (14 March 2004)

This movie is literally and figuratively "getting away with murder." The main protagonist of the movie kills a person that is innocent of the murder for which he is accused, and the movie simply glides by an explanation of what would ensue. But, figuratively, it also shows that big names in Hollywood "get away with murder." Who shall tell Clint Eastwood, Tim Robbins and Sean Penn that they have produced an overlong film that is replete with sheer nonsense. Katie loves daddy and daddy loves Katie -- but she is going to run off with a kid that daddy abhors. And, why was she going to run off??? Well, of course, [according to the testimony of two half idiotic teen aged kids] "She wanted to get out of this crummy town and to start a new life." Yeah, sure... a new life with another teen ager in Las Vegas. Katie gets killed at 1:00 AM in the morning -- but, it turns out, she was killed as a result of a couple of kids (one being a deaf mute) who happened to be up at 1:00 AM playing a kid's game with a real gun -- which just happens to be the gun that was used in a robbery 18 years ago, and which -- owing to stupendous police work -- can be identified because the police still had an 18 year old record of the markings of that gun. How far can one's credulity be stretched -- even if the stretching is being done by Hollywood icons?