What a pile of crap

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 2008)

2 Academy Awards ?!? = The Academy Award is a joke anymore! This movie stinks worse than a rotting corpse. I couldn't believe how bad it was.
Terrible story, boring acting, unbelievable stereotyped characters, it crawls at a snails pace, the ending is as anti-climactic as it comes, and worst of all - no moral to the story. Nothing to glean. What a pile of crap.
Whoever told Sean Penn he could act? Tim Robbins should be ashamed of his performance in this compared to Shawshank, and Kevin Bacon...was there ever a more "do nothing" actor - please...
To be clear, I don't have a problem with the topics in the movie although isn't the topic of child molestation as the defining characteristic of a character's psyche, just a little stale and and way over-used? Can't we get something new?
I have a problem with this movie in the fact that it is one giant stereotype, filled with comical and stupid characters, doing absolutely mindless things and behaving in ways that are so out of touch with reality it's not even funny.
What a waste of time. I avoided this movie for 5 years. Should have trusted my instincts!