Major problems with this movie

Rating: 1/10 (11 October 2003)

I apparrently stand amoung a small crowd who disliked this film. It seems to me that the audience who enjoyed the film must not have payed attention, though I know this can't be true. Still, I'm confused by everyone's reaction.
I was enraptured by this film through the first 3/4 of it. But by the end I was so irritated that I wanted to confront the people around me who were applauding.
The ending of this film has characters acting out of nowhere, without any establishment for their behavior earlier in the film. The murderer's wife, for example. And ofcourse the detective who completely "forgets about" the identity of the murderer once he's found out... completely out of touch with his character that was so bent on bringing the killer to justice even if it was a friend of his.
It is full of dropped themes, where glints of treasure you see in the beginning and expect to be fleshed out later are completely forgotten (take, for example, the crosses on the second molester's ring and necklace that receive so much focus in the beginning.)
I actually left this movie angry! For that, I have it some stars (3). Atleast I has some emotional reaction to it.