a thorough film

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2004)

very good casting, all of which are actors-resses that have made a very good impression to me over the years, tim robins especially, being able to perform as perfect as ever, given also the perplexity of the emotions of his role, and cavin bakon as fresh and striking as ever, sticking always to the facts of life that matter, never faltering or swaying from his chosen path.
also, eastwood has made the scenery pretty real, where it should have been, and excuisidly poetic in the points where emotions ruled (i'll never forget the scene of tim robbins over the bed of his sleeping son)
the ending? i liked it just fine, because that's what happens in real life as far as i'm concerned in general a very good film, with a few minutes in the middle, where the story could have rolled faster. but i forgive them because even then the scenes were not pointless blatter, but simply more detailed work over the grounds of the story, something that personally doesn't bother me much