Slow drama with a non sensible ending

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2009)

I truly respect Clint Eastwoods work as an Actor and a Director. But mystic river was not one of his better films.
The plot moves back and forth between the search for the young girls killers and the flashbacks of Dave's abuse. Eventually they seek revenge on Dave for killing the little girl when in actuality he did not do it.
The story moves so slowly and actors performances are over-dramatized. It got to the point every time they zoomed in on Penn or Robbins there was a 5 second pause, gets VERY irritating after the 20th time.
I do not know if this is based on a true story or what. But the ending makes no sense...the wife of Robbins knows her husband was a scapegoat and somehow is social with the mother of the girl??? Huh.
It was not worth watching again...good but not great...and certainly does NOT deserve to be in top 250 of all time.
Changeling and Flags of our fathers are much better examples of Eastwoods directing.