Outstanding

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2005)

Three Boys, Jimmy Sean and David. Play Hockey on the street they all live on in in city New York. The Puch is hit into a gutter and they go over and try to get it. Than notice some wet cement above it and start to write their names. Than a man pulls up flashes a badge and tells them off for the names, asking David to get in his car. He than drives off leaving the other boys bewildered. The man holds David in a cellar for four days before he escapes scared for life. Years later the three boys live on the same street they lived on before, not still friends really just nabors. When Jimmy's 19 year old daughter is brutally murdered bringing them all back together. That is the general plot to this amazing Clint Eastwood drama. The film is held together by a perfectly crafted screenplay and some amazing direction. The performances are though the strongest point. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon are the standouts, but the rest including Laurence Fishburne, Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, and Emmy Rossum. Clint Eastwood has had the occasional movie like Mystic River that is truly powerful and amazing such as the highly underrated The Perfect World, but has also had the occasional horrible mess like his most recent film Million Dollar Baby. Mystic River is the best film to come out so far in the 2000's and may be beaten but I woulden't bet on it. I loved this film and think you will to.