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Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2003)

Spoiler Alert, read after you have seen the movie...
I liked this movie because of the characters, etc., my date hated it because there was no action. This movie really came across as one that makes you think the book must have been great. All the little inconsistencies you guys have reported were probably all explained in really clear detail in the book, and maybe in the movie too til they were edited out or something. So, if you had problems with the final product, I say blame the editing or the scriptwriter.
For the record, they did say the trunk blood was O, and that the girl was O, but Brendan did not hear the 911 tape in the movie so who knows why he thought his bro could talk. He probably had the gun hidden in the ceiling because it was the one "manly" thing of his dad's that was still around, and as the oldest, he was now the "man", and probably keeping it in case he had to protect the family or something like that, again probably all spelled out in the book. I don't think he ever thought of his bro doing it until he saw the gun was gone.
As for Dave, he already said there were so many things he wanted to set straight with his wife & son, his fried brain was probably just wanting some way to get out of there and back to them, so he said yes.
Jimmy was crazy from the grief trauma, and used to being a man of action. He thought his "going straight" was a contributing factor to his daughter's death, never put two and two together to see that his perpetuating Just Ray's life with those checks was warping Ray's kids somehow. Now that he takes action again, he messes up again. My date said how could Sean let him go, but I don't think he will (see the shooting motion he makes at the parade), just waiting for the evidence that Dave's dead to make its appearance. Jimmy's confession with out rights read would never hold up, and they have no other evidence yet.
I thought Laura Linney was a good mafia-wife type character. Cool as ice. I liked MGHarden better in Space Cowboys, this character was too weak (I don't mean the depicting, I mean the actual character), like Annabeth sez. Maybe I just like the actress enough I hate to see her play such a hysterical wimp. And I would have liked to know the original molesters got a stronger come-uppance than they talked about...