Note to Clint: novels aren't screenplays

Rating: 3/10 (20 October 2003)

(Spoiler below)
Sean Penn does the best Robert De Niro impersonation and even tops him by crying three times, ostensibly for his on-screen daughter's death but for what dramatically is difficult to say.
I kept waiting for plot and character developments to develop into a story; what few actually did seemed taken from any formula cop show. Eastwood seems to have stuck with the original book in the hopes of "original intent" at the expense of letting develop on screen.
All in all, it's an actor's movie, not a director's movie. In fact, it's about three re-writes short of a movie. A pitiful waste of location, celluloid and pulled strings.