Contrived trash

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2005)

This movie tried so hard to make me see all these deeper messages. Rammed it down my throat in fact. But it just didn't work for me. That supposed emotional scene where they won't let him see his dead daughter just didn't work for me at all. Probably the last half hour or more at I had the whole movie figured out and I had stopped caring long before that. For me this goes in the pile of movies that some people absolutely love and I just don't get it. The whole movie I felt was just too long and too self assured. Verdict: Huge Cast, Huge Waste. If you want my honest opinion of Clint Eastwood movies, I think they're self-involved garbage. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil works better than this but certainly not by much.