I can't be the Only one who thinks this film is poorly done...right???

Rating: 3/10 (25 June 2006)

***contains spoilers*** Okay you watch a film, there ares one confusing bits in it, some scenes don't make sense, thats understandable, because in a self proclaimed 'mysery' film you expect everything to be explained in the end. But that isn't the case. I'm not going to go on about the moral message the film gives out, I don't even mind that Jimmy's wife turns out to be evil and The Sean might have let Jimmy go, but their actions aren't explained. The film makes out to be better than it really is, but then you find out it isn't. I mean seriously the film could simply have started out with the cops receiving the 911 call and then finding out it was the kids who did it, simple that's it. but they insist on going on about how Dave is kidnapped and sexually assaulted as a child, which I understand will affect him badly, but it's too much to expect it would really have affected Sean and Jimmy that much. In fact how the beginning scenes are relevant is baffling...apart from explaining why Dave decided to attack the child molester in the car. The most annoying character in the film has to be Dave's wife who surely cannot have an IQ of over 50, because she practically kills her husband by telling jimmy what she thinks..with no solid evidence I mention, instead of perhaps mentioning it to the police. I believe 75% of a film is the ending, and the ending just ruined it...not because I wanted a nice happy ending, but because their was no logical reasoning behind it. Two kids randomly come across a girl who happens to be the girl friend of the brother of one of them, and for some reason thought it'd be funny to scare her with a gun, and to make sure she doesn't talk, chase her across the woods, best her with a stick and shoot her...oh and incidentally she said hi to them after she swerved off the road. That's it, the whole story in that paragraph, the whole Sean, jimmy and Dave thing, is off no relevance at all, it's just an over dramatisation. In the end Sean tries to suggest they were all in someway metaphorically abducted...I felt like go into the TV and shaking him hard...you were stood on the road, you weren't the one locked away for four days, how event possible affected your lives is beyond me...or maybe I missed something. and the whole thing with Sean's wife, what's that about??!! I mean seriously, was the woman who played that role a personal friend of Eastwood and asked to be in the film. Watching Sean and his partner playing good cop bad cop was funny enough, without having to see Jimmy wife go on about ruling Boston, because to rule Boston all you need is 3 guys and yourself. Unlike many of the people here i didn't predict the ending of the film as early as 30 minutes, more like an hour and a half, but that's because after believing the hype I expected more than just two kids did it, and it was an accident really oops...I thought the child abduction, Sean's wife weird calls, the fact that Jimmy thought he had something to do with her death, and all the other irrelevant stuff might all link together in a clever way. but really let me tell you now if you're thinking of watching it, basically the tow kids did it, they didn't mean to though, forget everything else in the movie that's basically it. Whether Sean decides to let Jimmy go or not is unclear, either that's down to poor directing or acting, but you get the impression from the films ending he's letting jimmy go and mysteriously his partner who seems to be the kinda cops who wouldn't let things like that rest disappears...Ohh I'm sorry I'm going on , but this movie annoys me, maybe I should read the book, it might make more sense. and as for getting Oscars...Give me 50 million and i could make a film to get an Oscar, just have over acting, over dramatisation and big emotional scenes...I'm not sad I spent 2 hours watching the film, but put it this way...my mum was watching Sister Act the other day, and even that made more sense than this film.