Dark, depressing, with no closure at the end

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2004)

I knew this would rate high, here. Seems like all the movies full of characters that have very few, if any, socially redeeming traits are usually very popular with today's audiences, ie Pulp Fiction. Mystic River, for me, is full of sick, twisted people I cared very little about. It was a chore just to get thru to the end, which offered no real resolution, certainly nothing satisfying. Not sure what Kevin Bacon's little gun hand gesture meant. A violent, sad, and stressful film.
Performances were solid; Kevin Bacon certainly seems to have come into his prime as an actor, and Sean Penn is always amazingly good, even tho I am not particularly a fan.