Outstanding crime/thriller/drama.

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2010)

We have here, an excellent crime movie, one of the very best of the genre.
The story is very very good, has a little tense and mystery, I really loved that, makes your spine shiver. It's an intelligent title, not very fast, but not to slow either, the dialogs are great, we had even a few good jokes, and the ending... well, seems like Kevin Spacey is the ending man, cause there are 4 films which quickly comes to mind in which we was the key piece of brilliant endings: "The Usual Suspects", "Seven", "K-pax", "The Life of David Gale".
He shows us one more time, that along with Tom Hanks and Danzel Washington, truly is one of the best actors of the 90's. I like him so much because, most often, he talks rarely, but still manages to transmit a huge amount of information through para-verbal ways of expressing message : face, eyes, mimic, gestures, head position. etc, just like in "Seven". His interpretation was absolutely marvelous, he suggested to me that specific madness, a serial killer has. The duo Pitt-Freeman was good to, not as good as Spacey' performance as the antagonist, but close enough. As for Gwyneth Paltrow, she always had consistent, key roles with great influence on the plot: "The talented Mr Ripley", "A perfect Murder", "Shakeaspeare in Love", not the case here, and you will see why (those of you who didn't see it yet).
I didn't really like the ending, as a human being, it was sick, crazy, horrible. However judging from a distant angle, besides the repulsion , I think it was spectacular, I really appreciated it, because it launched one big message: that a human being can hold on being lucid, only when balanced, when he knows that the persons he loves most are safe. If not, he is driven by emotion and impulse.
This title doesn't focus on the police investigation as on the killer psychology, that is what makes it so special. No shootings, just a twisted sick puzzle, with an extraordinary depressing ending.
As an end, I liked this thriller-drama, because it was a realistic, psychological, crime experience, which showed all of us the human condition, the unimaginable, disgusting thinks a man can do. I rate this a well deserved 9/10.