Liked it but...

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2003)

I was really expecting a little more out of this movie, and I can't even say what. To me, it just seemed like another murder mystery with exceptionally good acting and story telling. I guessed the killer/situation halfway through(The same thing happened in Eastwood's "Blood Work" - there's a scene so obvious that you just go "oh...that's what happened.")

There's more to this film than just a mystery - it deals with personal demons and how difficult it is to change who you are, no matter how much you change your life. A lot of it rings true, and the film is extremely realistic, but as a whole, Mystic River wasn't as enchanting as I wanted it to be.