Interesting Watch

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2014)

A haunting movie with two of Hollywood's A star actors Sean Penn & Kevin Bacon. The movie tells the tale of vigilante justice in a tough neighbourhood. Personally I found the movie slow and the narrative hard to get into but the scenes with the Investigators are the best part of the film.
Movies like this tend to expose the mob element of the major characters. As such your attention is distracted by the behaviours of these characters and not on any central plot which was missing in this movie. This movie tries to replicate a book and for me it was not an enjoyable movie. It was however expertly acted.
As always when focusing on the mature themes of the movie you have to be very delicate in handling this subject matter. The movie continues like so many other mob shows like the Godfather, Sopranos & The Goodfellas in glamorising the Mafia.
Despite my dislike of this aspect of the story I am glad that I watched the film.