Sinking Feeling

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2012)

If Irecall correctly it was The Friends Of Eddie Coyle that put the first dent in the John P. Marquand view of Boston as a fit place for the likes of George Apley and his ilk. Robert B. Parker's Spencer still appeared to inhabit a civilized city albeit often called upon to deal with criminal elements but Denis Lehane seems to be living on a different planet let alone inhabiting a different city. I have read and enjoyed Lehane but he definitely appears to revel in an area of Boston in which I would feel uneasy at noon let alone after dark. Above all this is an actor's movie and the actors are all up to snuff, I will see anything in which Laura Linney appears but she was well served here by her male cohorts and though it is impossible to feel any sympathy for Sean Benn, who plays a man half a step up from a Neanderthal, he does it as well as anyone. Not a pleasant two hours but well done.