some good things, some bad

Rating: 7/10 (29 January 2005)

Not a bad movie. Good tension, good emotions, good acting, but all together not quite....good enough. Perhaps the Sean/wife calling subplot could have been forsaken for a bit more on the relationship between the two brothers. I thought Tim Robbins had the hardest, and did the best, acting job in the film. Could not believe that Jimmy's character would get away with what he did....nothing in the film led me to believe he should have. The feel...the surroundings. That I thought was done well. The music was okay...only a few scenes where it seemed overbearing. I notice Clint himself wrote it. Not a bad theme, but little exposition. On the other hand, it wasn't a movie that I would greatly concern myself with in that category. I'm just interested in that area of film.