I WANT MY TWO HOURS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 2004)

Am I the only one who thought that this movie was an over hyped piece of garbage. It makes me sick that every year there is at least one of these trite pretentious "borathons" that fools every knucklehead in the world and gets every possible award thrown at it. There is no justice. To begin with the acting was "made for tv movie" bad, with the exception (and I do say this with deep regret)of Sean Penn. As much as I despise him, he gave a powerful performance. As for the rest of the cast, they should be ashamed of themselves. Laura Linney did a great New York accent despite the Boston setting. Tim Robbins sounded like he was just trying too hard, there by way over doing it. Kevin Bacon sounded alright the three or four times he actually tried to sound like a Bostonian. Larry Fishburne at least didn't even make an attempt. The rest of the cast were so bland they faded from memory quickly. SPOILER!!!Thanks go out to the kid from GLADIATOR for playing a mute, so we didn't have to suffer his talents as well. The direction of MYSTIC was a bit standard, and it did drag at times but it was nothing to really down mouth. Also Clint is a living legend so as bad as a whole the film was, had he not been behind the camera it could have been even worse. Let's just forgive, and hope he never does it again. As for the story...well, I guess bad books make REALLY bad movies. It was dull dreary none of the characters were likable, and it could have ended several times before it FINALLY did. By the end of this calamity I didn't so much want my money back as the two wasted hours I'd spent sitting with my butt going numb in the theater. In conclusion the next time you want to see a Sean Penn film rent SHANGHAI SURPRISE.