Good not Great

Rating: 6/10 (26 October 2003)

The Good: 1. The acting is amazing. I actually like Kevin Bacon as an actor in this movie and thats saying a lot. I liked Larry Fishburne's preformance but I think Sean Penn steals the movie with the most beilevable of the preformances. 2. Eastwood does a good job of directing the movie. Most scenes don't have bright colors until the end. I liked this it gave the movie a grittier feel than having it filmed with bright colors. 3. The plot was pretty good, it keeps you watching the entire movie, sometimes it drags on but I didn't think it was too predictable.
The Bad: 1. The audience never really feels for Tim Robbins character I don't think. After him escaping in the beginning I felt for him but Robbins preformance through me off, I don't know what he was going for with it. 2. At the end I felt sort of like I watched a 2 hour law and order episode. There are the same type elements, a crime, then the 2 detectives putting it all together by interviewing people. This dragged on after a while and I think the end would have been better if the movie was 20 minutes shorter.