How did this score an 8.0??

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2018)

I mean this is baffling but I sat through the film purely because of the score on here - but there's nothing that stands out about the film - the storyline is one that's been done before loads, a girl is killed, the main protagonists all have a link to each other, the police always think it's the boyfriend and it's not even that gritty...the acting is ok, but overdone in places and the end is kinda predictable. What annoyed me was the painful dialogue, it's almost like you can hear the script being read at times especially with Laurence Fishburne and Tim Robbins' overly tormented guy, and the characters are too much 'Caricature' to be believable, especially the two overly aggressive 'irish' brothers.
There's also a weird sub plot with Kevin Bacon's estranged wife which makes no sense. Like why even have that in there?? It doesn't add anything to his character and gets annoying after a while. Sean Penn does his usual performance - it's good but not great, and there's a nice cameo from Eli Wallach but when that's the highlight of a film you know it's bad.