Mystic River DVD

Advantages: Great Cast, Fabulous screenplay
Disadvantages: A little too long

...During 2003 that movie was Mystic River. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Director: Clint Eastwood Screenplay: Brian Helgeland Cert: 15 Run time: 137 mins Main Cast: Sean Penn - Jimmy Markum Tim Robbins - Dave Boyle Kevin Bacon - Sean Devine Laurence Fishburne - Sgt. Whitey Powers Marcia Gay Harden - Celeste Boyle Laura Linney - Annabeth Markum Kevin Chapman - Val Savage Tom Guiry - Brendan ...
...from Dennis Lehane’s novel, Mystic River is the story of 3 childhood friends who grow up to lead three very different lives. Their paths cross and seem indeterminedly linked to one gloomy episode in their joint past. The story starts with the three main characters – Jimmy Markhum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) playing in the street. A car pulls up and two paedophiles dupe Dave into getting into the car under ... Read review

Advantages: Dark, sombre tale
Disadvantages: Slow in places

...clothes? The city of the mystic river holds all the answers and a few more secrets besides. As you’ve probably gathered, Mystic River is not a happy tale. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film is a dark and sombre tale about justice, retribution and fate. If you like happy endings, then it will come as no surprise to find that Mystic River is probably NOT the film for you. So what’s it all about? Well, the whole film has a distinctly ...
...that’s exactly what happens in Mystic River. Dave’s abduction as a child is shown as a singularly very shocking event. The image of the car pulling away with the frightened young boy peering from the rear windshield is extremely powerful, but when the action then shifts to adulthood, you are at once curious as to what will happen next. Dave is, not surprisingly, terribly affected by the trauma, but we clearly see that he isn’t the ... Read review

Advantages: A well acted dark drama for adults
Disadvantages: Some might not like such a sombre tale.

Mystic River is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane a dark mystery thriller with a less than Hollywood ending. The screenplay by Brian Helgeland is well-crafted and Clint Eastwood directs with an easy morose pace that’s guaranteed to grip the audience and depress the mood. The haunting background music was also written by Eastwood. The story takes place in a Boston suburb. Three young boys Jimmy, Sean and Dave are playing in the street and ...
...A man claiming to be a detective interrogates the boys and makes Dave Boyle get into his car. The subsequent events scar the boy for life. It is 30years later as adults when the three boy’s destinies are once more entangled that the film examines the effects of this event on the lives of them all. Dave (Tim Robbins) comes home bloodstained and tells his wife he has been attacked by a mugger and may have killed him. She comforts him but becomes suspicious ... Read review

Advantages: Moody, mysterious and marvellous
Disadvantages: None

...Award for his performance in Mystic River and I think, well, maybe...maybe in this performance he does deliver so... Secondly, and I know this is going to vex many of you out there, I have never, and I repeat never liked Clint Eastwood. Don't start pelting me with tomatoes just yet!! I have watched a good number of his movies and found that most of his performances were decidedly similar. He just doesn't seem to act, he is rather just showing the ...
...reasons for wanting to hate Mystic River, first of all Sean Penn is the main male lead in the film and second, Clint Eastwood directed the film... only I was sort of intruiged and interested in seeing it, I wanted to see this Oscar winning performance of Sean Penn's and then I wanted to slate it! But here I am, in all honesty and in all fairness, giving my full and honest opinion of the movie and I loved it. I am not going to even begin to tell ... Read review

Advantages: very good script, very good actors
Disadvantages: The message left is just not right

...on the shores of the mystic river, only to find out next day that the killer was someone else and Dave sort of told the truth about what happened to him that infamous night. I am not going to tell you who was the killer, this is not the point of this opinion. Sean knows that actually Jimmy has done something horrible to Dave, but he doesn’t do anything. Unacceptable for a policeman. And so, Jimmy gets away with this cold blood murder of an innocent ...
...with the murder of someone who talked to the police about him, years before. This is what I dislike about the movie, that leaves this message: you can get away with murder. This is not right. It doesn’t matter how good the actors played in the movie (they are doing their part brilliantly, I must admit, Tim Robbins being, for me, the best, with Sean Penn second), how good the movie is directed (Clint Eastwood knows how to do a movie) or how much ... Read review

Advantages: Special effects are quite spectacular, true Speilberg style
Disadvantages: Weak story line

.... Dakota Fanning as Rachel, could be the next Drew Barrymore, watch this space. Tim Robins as Ogilvy (astronomer), Mystic River and Jacobs Ladder fame, Justin Chatwin (Robbie). Who? Special Edition DVD disc 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scenes include: Revisiting the invasion The HG Wells LegacySteven Spielberg And The Original War Of The Worlds Designing The Enemy Tripods And Aliens Photo gallery Box Set is PAL and region 2. Dolby and Wide screen. Film Length 1 hour and 40 minutes Language is English To Sum It All Up ~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry folks not as good the HG Wells classic. There were a large group of us seeing this and we left the cinema with the same mixed emotions. The DVD is not much better but Spielberg does deliver some memorable moments. If you still want to buy…………………… www.waroftheworlds.com for a little taster Reasonable... Read review

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