Mystic River

Pros: Cast, acting, directing, and story
Cons: Turned predictable near the end.

Clint Eastwood has been an actor for years. Later in his career, he started to direct as well. He has directed several movies, and won the Oscar for best director for his work on Unforgiven. In the fall of 2003, his newest movie, Mystic ...

Pros: Performances
Cons: Last half hour

Parental grief is a powerful, primal thing. Childhood sexual abuse leaves wounds that may never heal. What happens when these two egregious injustices collide forms the framework for Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River. The film opens with ...

Pros: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins
Cons: Screenplay non-sequiturs, women not given much to do

"We bury our sins here. We wash them clean" Jimmy Markum Clint Eastwood's Mystic River tells the tale of three scarred men. It poses the question, "can we ever escape our pasts?" A brief prologue establishes that one of the three had ...

Pros: Well done story about something we don't want to think about happening.
Cons: Unrelently grim, this isn't something for light viewing.

I was of two minds when it came to watching this film. The subject matter -- the murder of a young woman -- and the resulting damage that it creates among three men, was something that I knew would disturb me. On the other hand, I had heard and seen ...

Pros: Sean Penn and Tim Robbins head a great ensemble; Eastwood's direction; Helgeland's script
Cons: More films aren't as ambitious as this

If there's one word that can be used to describe the directorial career of Clint Eastwood, that word would be steady. His films may not be of consistently high quality, but all of the ones I've seen are quality. He has shown he knows how to entertain ...

Pros: Eastwood, Robbins, Penn, Fishburne, Bacon, great story, great Direction, Wonderful film in every aspect
Cons: none

Normally I have good taste in movies, or I stumble across the ones who end up being nominate my the Motion Picture Academy for Oscars. However, when Mystic River came out, I kept having things come up that prevented me from seeing it in the theaters. ...

Pros: The performances; The story
Cons: Moves slowly at times; Some mysteries are never touched

Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, Mystic River is a suspenseful crime/drama/mystery film with an all- star cast. This movie was nominated for several Oscars at the 2004 ceremonies and it walked away with two prizes: Best Actor and Best Supporting ...

Pros: Penn and Robbins gave great Oscar-worthy performances.
Cons: The accents, undeveloped plots, combo of CSI and Law & Order.

I am always a bit daunted when I review a movie that I can’t rave about when Top Reviews have. But that’s the reason I can write my opinion of Mystic River. I was especially drawn to it (which will come back to haunt this movie) by the ...

Pros: Penn, Bacon, and Robbins
Cons: Linney, predictable

I was not really interested in Mystic River when it first hit the theaters. To tell you the truth, I didn’t actually hear a lot about the movie until it was nominated at a few of the awards shows. So I surprised myself by picking this movie up ...

Pros: Enthralling mystery, superb acting and more feelings than you can handle.
Cons: Can't afford to see it four times!

How in the world am I going to do this? Mystic River will have been the third movie of 2003 that I went to see twice. I already knew after the first viewing that my feelings weren't set in stone. I didn't think that, after a second viewing, ...

Pros: Helgeland's script. Eastwood's musical score, methodical presentation. The film's ensemble cast; reflective, cumulative power.
Cons: Loose ends and motivations: For instance, would Sergeant Whitey Powers overlook murder, and why?

Thinking back on Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER, I was reminded of two little 11 year-old boys, Fourth Graders, talking about the Annual *Ruston Fall Festival, which would begin that night. It was a pleasant Northeastern Ohio Friday in September, and ...

Pros: direction, script, Penn, Robbins, Harden, Linney, Boston.
Cons: a bit too long-winded, could have standed a bit of a shave.

Clint Eastwood's latest film, Mystic River, is also perhaps his very best. An interesting and talented, if not always on-target director, Eastwood finds his equal in Dennis Lehane's novel of the same name, and the results are rather wonderful. Sh ...

Pros: Amazing cast, very well acted
Cons: Boring minimalist music, unsatisfying ending

Mystic River is one of the few movies directed by Clint Eastwood that does not star Clint Eastwood. I kept looking for him to make a Hitchcock-like cameo somewhere in the background, but he was nowhere to be found. Normally, Eastwood makes great movies, ...

Pros: Morally complicated, rich characters, strong performances
Cons: A bit deliberate, thinner than the book, sketchy accents

Clint Eastwood's new film Mystic River is not a whodunit. As I walked out of the theatre, I heard a twentysomething guy boasting to his girlfriend that he'd figured out the ending way in advice and I kinda wanted to whack him (in an "open hand s ...

Pros: The acting, solid direction
Cons: Far from perfect

It's that time of the year again. Yes, it's Oscar season! And in the middle of February, Oscar fever is hotter than ever. There are five hot contenders for Best Picture and one of these films is the grim, sinister Mystic River directed by the ...