Why bother the silver screen?

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2003)

Spoilers within! Good actors, relaxed direction, but why bother the silver screen with this tv story? Some messages come across quite questionably: killing a freak who is aching under his burden anyway, and then getting away with this unharmed. Hm. Makes you wonder. A little boy's father is taken, and neither he (as Clinty seems not to give a s*** for him) nor his Mum react in a decent way. If this is so in American reality,they should get more penalties as they recently had. If it's not like this, why flogging the old clichÃ©s? And then, hey, Sean Penn, try to find your own way. That's the next impersonation of Robert de Niro. It's a good one, but impersonations are ridiculous (and pointless) in themselves. So overall the film is not really a waste of time, but... Eastwood doesn't get it right with every flick.