It is easy to dismiss this movie for one reason or another. Either it was too blue, or the ending didn't satisfy some, or whatever. But it was a really, good movie.
Tight directing, great acting, and the viewer becomes very invested in this drama from the first scene 'till the last. I felt my mood change about halfway through it--some might get upset by this feeling. For others, it is called 'getting lost' in the plot. I felt the pressure.
Jack Nicholson, who rarely disappoints, gives a commanding performance as a cop going into retirement with mixed emotions...he has had a great career, but in his last 6 hours as a detective, he visits the crime scene of a murdered juvenile girl. The family makes a demand on him that he doesn't have the heart to deny. That demand, his 'pledge' to them, and his reaction to it for the remainder of the movie, forms the basis of an obsession that gradually erodes the Nicholson character's view of the world to the end of the movie. The absolute certainty that Nicholson feels about the presence of his target later in the movie was particularly compelling, since only the viewer knows 'the big picture.' Great work. I was only disappointed with the lack of DVD extras...8/10 stars :-)
Tight directing, great acting, and the viewer becomes very invested in this drama from the first scene 'till the last. I felt my mood change about halfway through it--some might get upset by this feeling. For others, it is called 'getting lost' in the plot. I felt the pressure.
Jack Nicholson, who rarely disappoints, gives a commanding performance as a cop going into retirement with mixed emotions...he has had a great career, but in his last 6 hours as a detective, he visits the crime scene of a murdered juvenile girl. The family makes a demand on him that he doesn't have the heart to deny. That demand, his 'pledge' to them, and his reaction to it for the remainder of the movie, forms the basis of an obsession that gradually erodes the Nicholson character's view of the world to the end of the movie. The absolute certainty that Nicholson feels about the presence of his target later in the movie was particularly compelling, since only the viewer knows 'the big picture.' Great work. I was only disappointed with the lack of DVD extras...8/10 stars :-)