Jesse Stone: No Remorse

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with the shooting murder of a young man at night as he opens his car door in a parking garage. Jesse Stone is introduced who, after his suspension as chief of police, has sunk into seclusion and alcoholism. Ordered not to communicate with his former subordinates while on suspension, he has been out of touch with everyone. Eventually his colleague Rose, an officer, becomes concerned and asks Stone's friend Captain Healy, the State Police Homicide Commander, to check in on him. Healy is recovering from gunshot wounds and supposed to be on medical leave but, as he tells Stone, he’s taking his leave at his office. Healy finds Stone disheveled, drunk, and despondent. Shortly after Healy arrives, Stone receives a phone call from his ex-wife Jenn, so Healy leaves. Jenn tells Jesse that she needs to talk because she and Elliot had a fight. Angered, Jesse tells Jenn that they shouldn’t speak anymore, and rips out the phone. Later he buys a cell phone, which Rose helps him program. He gives the number only to her and a few others. Jesse and Rose are becoming close.
After a second murder in a parking garage, Healy asks Jesse to work as a private consultant to the Boston police department on the investigation. He does this partly to help his friend, but he also needs Stone's experience. Jesse soon learns that the first victim had ties to Boston mob boss, Gino Fish. When Stone questions Fish about the man, he denies knowing him, as does his secretary Alan. After a third murder, Jesse questions Fish again, who admits that he knew the first victim, but that he hadn't seen him for a couple of days before the murder. Alan confirms this. Later Stone meets with Sister Mary John, taking her to dinner. He asks if Alan or Gino had been trying to recruit young girls, but she hints that the men are gay. He learns that Milly’s, where the first victim had been on the night he was killed, was a gay bar, and a favorite destination of Alan and Gino. He suspects that Alan saw Gino and the first victim together there.
With thought, Stone begins to think that Alan may have murdered the first victim out of jealousy. To prevent the personal connection being discovered, he murdered two more men to make the events appear to be related and due to a serial killer. Stone confronts Gino, and later Alan with his conclusions. Stone calls Alan and sets up a meeting at Milly's. Alan retrieves the murder weapon and throws it in the ocean before meeting Stone. At Milly's Stone sees Alan being killed in a hit and run. Stone and Healy later speculate that Gino ordered the hit, fearing that any confession by Alan would reveal that the crime boss was gay and endanger his underworld reputation.

Tags: murder

Review:
Intelligent Television Movie for Intelligent Viewers.
I have read all the novels and have seen all the movies with Tom Selleck.
He will always be remembered as Magnum P.I., but Jesse Stone is his very best work.
It has excellent characters, very smart dialog and great performances.
Tom Selleck's Jesse is flawed, human and holding on for dear life.
The supporting case is first rate, William Devane, Saul Rubinek (whose character is very much wounded like Jesse), Stephen McHattie as the State Homicide Captain, Kathy Baker as Rose and Kohn Sudduth as Luther are all excellent, nothing blazing, but the perfect touch by each in support of Tom Selleck.
Another under rated performance is William Saddler as Gino Fish, his cat and mouse game with Jesse is always interesting to watch.
In No Remorse, Gino lets his his guard down ever so slightly to Jesse, SLIGHTLY, their scenes together are superb.
I look forward to Tom Selleck's Jesse Stone, is in many ways the movies characterizations are superior to the novels.
In No Remorse Jesse is still suspended as Paradise Police Chief, he is drinking heavily.
There is a crime wave in town and Luther and Rose are prohibited from talking to Jesse.
Capt Healy calls on Jesse for help with apparent serial killer in Boston.
The dialog and performances are excellent and my only disappointment was the ending.
Of course the ending is the set up for the next Jesse Stone movie Innocents Lost.
My understanding is that production is complete and another movie is being readied for filming..
You'll have no remorse for choosing this movie.
Jesse Stone: No Remorse is a movie that chooses substance over style.
The movie stays away from tons of action scenes, impressive camera angles and CGI.
The movie is labeled as a crime/mystery but personally I would label it more as a drama centering around burned out detective Stone's life and his interactions with other interesting characters in his small town, and a subplot about the solving of a couple of murder cases and robberies.
I haven't seen the previous installments of the Jesse Stone series but I can say that in the way this movie was presented I was able to follow the plot.
I must say this movie did raise my curiosity, so I might watch the other Jesse Stone movies.
I was very surprised to see how good this movie is.
I found this to be better than a lot of movies I watched in the cinema recently.
The intriguing dialogue and good acting makes this charming little film a worthwhile experience.
It has been a long time since I watched a series with such a delight.
The Jesse Stone series is surely going into TV-History.
Tom Selleck is an icon of the 80's, but I'm sure he will be remembered for these wonderful movies.
Tom is playing with minimalism, but every word, look, and breath is telling more than any short handed written hip cop series can say.The pictures and the music are leading you into the small town world perfectly.
The best Jesse Stone So Far. We thought that Jesse Stone No Remorse was excellent.
Tom Selleck is at his best playing Jesse and he is as handsome as ever!!!
Jesse is very methodical in looking at crime scene videos and he is very adept at recreating the actual crime scenes.
Hopefully, at the hearing, Jesse, Rose and Luthor will be reinstated.
I remember him from Die Hard 2 but in Jesse Stone he is perfect in the part.
Can't wait for the next Jesse Stone..
Jesse Stone, No Remorse Aims for Greatness and Hits the Mark.
No Remorse, the latest installment of the magnificent Jesse Stone series is only for those who love good character driven drama performed by some of today's greatest character actors.
The multiple story lines keep it moving, some stories meandering through the work like a brook through the salt meadows, still others rushing with the force of a North Atlantic tide.
like stories do in real life.
And as in real life, Jesse's flawed character remains but we can forgive him.
Out of the force, Jesse still manages to do his usual job..
I am already on the sixth film in the Jesse Stone series.
Once again the film was not based on any book, but original characters from Robert B.
Yes, it is different from the previous ones, since Jesse's role slightly changed after what happened in the last film.
Also a better film after the recent downfall, still not that great, but anyway, Jesse Stone fans will enjoy it.There's a murder in the opening which was shown to us, but who was behind it remains a mystery, because that's the story of this film to reveal.
So the one murder becomes two and followed by another, Jesse, who is now not in the force gets a chance to involve on it indirectly.
Besides, the film not to focus on just one case, but multiple like the usual and that's the Jesse Stone series' special.
With those layers, how it was developed and ended was smartly done.Jesse's old boss is out of the prison and he lends some help on something to him.
I'm also happy for mentioning the Reggie in the film, so far he was unnoticed, but gets a slight recognition here.
Besides, Jesse got a cell phone and there's a series of jokes regarding sharing the number, only minor ones."Jealousy's a powerful thing."Still the same director, and he did a good job.
Besides appearing in the lead, Tom Selleck also penned the story for this with another writer.
Parker's unexpected death during before this film came out.
So there's a mention at the end of the film with respect.
His contribution must be appreciated, now there are many Jesse Stone fans out there after this series came out and I hope it continues for another decade.
Since the Jesse's absent in the force, his colleagues had taken some serious steps to fight the crime in Paradise.
Particularly Luther has taken the charge of the force, and with Rose, only they two are the ones left in the station.
On the other hand, they're facing a threat from the town council that they might be disbanded if their work or the result does not meet the target.
So that's why this tale becomes so exciting, because they try their best to keep their jobs, but only the follow-up film would disclose about how it all shapes up.Regarding the murders, the suspense was good, but also gives some hints for the viewers to have their opinion on the suspect.
Particularly, I'm eager to know Jesse's journey, whether he returns to Paradise or set to work for his boss at the Boston.Anyway, this film was a turning point for sure; many unexpected things might going to happen in the remaining films.
In the those remaining three films, I expect at least one of it would end as the best in the series.
So can't wait for those ones to watch and let me meet you with the next review in a couple of days.7/10.
I've enjoyed many of the other Jessie Stone movies but I found this one to be lacking in a lot of substance.
The plot does not get resolved in any satisfying way, and many of the characters lack depth.
It feels like a lot of different parts put loosely together - his past relationship with his ex-wife, his co-workers marital problem, an unrelated string of brutal convenience store robberies, and the towns impending plan for the police department - none of these ideas felt resolved at the end.
(except for the convenience store robberies, but this was dealt with in such a straightforward way and the bad guys were never heard from again.
I enjoy all of the Jesse Stone series with Tom Selleck.
Great photography, Selleck rocks, but terrible awful clichés and predictable plot.
Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)If it weren't for Tom Selleck I'd never have made it twenty minutes through this cliché laden over-sized made for TV movie.
It feels like any routine t.v. episode cop and detective movie stretched into two hours, and yet it's missing even the cool twists that the best t.v. shows use to keep each week interesting.
Two, I thought with each passing scene it couldn't continue as badly as it started.Okay, three actually, Selleck himself is fun to watch in his grumpy, steady, intuitive way.
And filmed well throughout.If you have seen other Jesse Stone movies you might have other reasons to put up with some of the additions here because they might have given more backstory.
I haven't and so (for example) the scene toward the beginning where the hotty woman tells Selleck she just wants uncomplicated sex with him and she's wearing no underwear, and where he says no thanks and grumpy as ever leaves and walks home, is totally stupid.
(Or female fantasy if you like an aging Selleck very very much?) And it has zero bearing on the movie.
If by good fortune you don't actually see all these various character traits as clichés you won't be as annoyed or bored as I was.
That comes from what movies (and t.v. shows) you've seen before.
Selleck plays a characteristic older cop on the skids.
He drinks, he's been kicked off the police force, he befriends a sweet ordinary young girl like a daughter, he figures out the crime by just being experienced and intuitive, he is single and lonely, he's obsessed, and so on and so on.
If it wasn't for Selleck having screen presence it wouldn't hold an ounce of water.The supporting cast is reasonable, if again filling predictable niches in this kind of movie.
I like cop and detective movies.
I was open to liking this a lot.
I'm even a Detroit guy (like Selleck) and was predisposed favorably.
I watched this movie out of curiosity to see what else could Tom Selleck do beside the old Hawaii Private Eye series of the past decades.
I set through the boring dialogs and watched many meaningless streams of small events that were somehow tie up the story, but I failed to see any of them!
My recommendation is for you to try another boring movie with more action and meaningless dialogs that might make you feel better than this one made me feel for wasting my money on the rental, plus the time I wasted watching this crap production!
Tom Selleck is perfect as Jesse.
The ongoing theme of Jesse showing Reggie, the dog, no affection .......is bullshit.
What the hell is wrong with whoever decided this was a good change from Parker's writing?
The movie does Mr. Parker a disservice and the franchise should be ashamed..
Jesse Stone our dour detective with a fondness for drink and seeing his shrink is back.
So more long stares, more slow jazz music and every other cliché to remind the audience that this is not the high adrenaline Magnum but Tom Selleck the actor.
However talking slowly and looking miserable does not make you an acting great.Jesse Stone is suspended by Paradise town council itself looking like a rather corrupt bunch.
The state homicide boss, Captain Healy hires him as a consultant in the hunt for a suspected serial killer who as it turns out may be the secretary of the local boxing promoter and gangster Gino Fish played by William Sandler and maybe the more interesting character in the cast.You can tell Stone is a great detective because he follows Fish's secretary and suddenly discovers that he has ended up in the gay area of town.
It looks like its the first time he has ever realised there is a gay quarter!Talking about sloppy writing I never did figure out how they managed to solve the general store subplot so conveniently..
"Jesse Stone: No Remorse" is a 2010 movie based on the character created by Robert B.
Parker.I like a lot of things about these movies, one of which is how incidental characters are carried through to the next story, for instance, Emily Bishop, now working in a convenience store; and Hasty, now out of prison and still in love with his ex-wife.In this film, Jesse has been suspended by the town council and isn't supposed to be talking to Suitcase or to Rose.
And now he has a cell phone and Rose has the number, if he could only figure out how to work it.Healy (Steven McHattie) hires Jesse as a consultant to look into a series of murders.
Jesse gets the word that everyone on the police force is going to be fired, and the council plans on using these unsolved murders as an excuse.
So Jesse points out it would behoove everyone involved to get them solved.My problem with these movies, though I think the stories are good, is Tom Selleck.
If a more complex actor were playing this role it would help the movies.I read a story from a woman who gave EST-type courses to actors, in which she promised them a result - not stardom, but something.
You have no talent.Now, the actor was very upset, but the teacher pointed out to him that now, he didn't have to worry - all he had to do was use his charm and his winning personality to sell the role and not worry about the other stuff.She ends her chapter in this book by saying the actor became a household name.
Given that this was written at the time that Magnum was so big, I have always suspected the actor was Selleck.Whether it was or not, this role does not play to his strong points.
Pretty lousy go nowhere waste of time movie.
I bought this DVD 2 years ago and today I finally got around to watch it.I re-installed my operating system and had to try out my DVD machine to see how it plays.I dropped this movie in as the rest of the operating system was updating.Wow...was this a total bore.
Nothing leads anywhere and there is no suspense, action, mystery, romance, comedy or anything else.This is like watching water drip slowly out of a tap.
Tom Selleck in No Remorse, another film in his Jesse Stone series has shown his range as a player.
No two detectives could be more different than the flip and cool Thomas Magnum of Magnum, PI and the grim and determined Jesse Stone, a man with issues, but who still gets his job done.Whether he has a job is a question though.
From the last film Selleck has been left on suspension pending a hearing from his job as chief of the small Paradise, Massachusetts police force.
Colleagues Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth are trying to carry on as best they can with a string of convenience store robberies plaguing the town.In addition the homicide chief of the Massachusetts State Police, Stephen McHattie has asked Selleck to help very unofficially with a homicide that involves a connected fight promoter William Sadler and his personal assistant Todd Hoffey.
It has to be unofficial because of Selleck's suspension, but Tom even with the suspension cramping his style he gets results in both cases.Todd Hoffey in addition to Selleck walks off the acting honors here.
One should also make note of William Devane as a psychiatrist treating Selleck.The Jesse Stone films are well made and I look forward to seeing the next one when it debuts on television..
I suppose that they will wait until the next installment to resolve the conflict between Stone and the town council.
I find it really impressive that Mr. Selleck can bring wit and humor to a character which at the best of times can be best described as melancholy.Two thumbs up!!.
This time around Stone, suspended from his job as chief of police by a vindictive councilman, is tapped by Commander Healey to help the Boston force solve what appears to be random shootings by a serial killer.
Meanwhile Rose and Suitcase - now comprising the entire Paradise police force - are doing their best to track down the perp who is not afraid to beat up the staff of convenience stores.
This remains one of the finest of the television 'cop' shows and scores in its hard core of supporting players, Suitcase, Rose, Hasty, Gino Fish, Healey etc.
Jesse Stone-Have Remorse on Us *.
The movie is a bad one because the major premise of a series of murders is sidetracked by too many sidebar stories.
We really have a promising story here as the killings unfold; unfortunately, too many other stories get in the way.Tom Selleck, who should definitely stick with the far superior Blood Brothers, is a suspended cop now working as a consultant.
His theory on the murders is way out despite the fact that he is proved correct.Kathy Baker, looking much older and in some scenes like Hillary Clinton, plays a lady police officer with plenty of problems of her own.
Alright, another Jesse Stone movie!
Tom Selleck seems to actually live this character.
Jesse Stone is the suspended without pay police chief of the small Massachusetts town of Paradise.
The town council weenies didn't like how he ran the town's small police force.
The state homicide chief hires him as a consultant in an apparent serial killer case.
Now the killer is not a serial killer but a soon to be let go lover and secretary of a local drug dealer named Gino Fish.
The guy goes on to kill two more at random to make it look like a serial killer.
Going to Fish Jesse relays some info to him and guess what?
She keeps coming on to Jesse but he turns her down every time.
Suitcase has been made temporary police chief and while he is a very good cop he does not have the experience to handle the chief's job at this time.
As usual in the Stone movies things turn out well.
Not that this necessarily a good thing for the bad guys.