Review of Mystic River (2003) by Walter H — 25 Dec 2012
Mystic River is a mixed bag. All the acting was good or better. Good mood music. Very clean picture. I was very annoyed from the beginning with the role of Dave's wife, Celeste. Very deliberately and with purely circumstantial evidence she is deeply suspicious of her husband at the outset, and the message is telegraphed to anyone in the audience that isn't sleeping that she's gonna wind up ratting him out to Markum, even though she doesn't really know a thing about what really happened.
So you watch it wondering when that's gonna happen, knowing that it'll be near the end because the s*%! is gonna hit the fan when she does. Also, near the end Markum's wife has some weird lines that sounded like total BS to me, and Lawrence Fishbourne's skeptical character is suddenly MIA.
This all must've made sense on some late night brainstorming session when they were trying to figure out how to move the story along, but it didn't make sense to me. Other than that, it was fine.
A flawed movie, not among Eastwood's best. Sean Penn does do fine work here tho.
This review of Mystic River (2003) was written by Walter H on 25 Dec 2012.
Mystic River has generally received very positive reviews.
Was this review helpful?
