Mystic River (DVD)

...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 ...

an_enigmatic_brummie 22.11.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...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 ...

LostWitness 08.03.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

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 ...

silver40 09.01.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...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 ...

kitty17 15.08.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...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 ...

adicos 28.10.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

Firstly; I suppose I'd better lay my cards on the table right from the outset. I'm not really a big fan of anyone in this film. Sean Penn - I could take him or leave him, I'm afraid. He does a fine job of looking either intense or anguished, but doesn't seem to ever do very much else. Tim Robbins - sorry, but he really doesn't seem to have any appreciable charisma to me. I don't doubt that the man can act; it's just that, unlike some other actors ...
...There's always a slight barrier there. And as to Kevin Bacon - well, he's got six degrees of looking vacant, but that's about it. So I wasn't expecting to enjoy this film at all. And yet, almost despite myself, I did. Don't get me wrong, though - it's not in my top ten list of favourite films or anything, and I still don't understand why it got as much critical acclaim as it did - but, given that I was expecting to hate it, the fact that I came ...

lostdog 08.06.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...just got round to watching Mystic River his 2003 film that swept the board in the acting categories at last years Oscars and quite rightly to. This is one of the best recent films I have seen. As Eastwood himself comments in the DVD special feature documentary, Mystic River is not about special effects or an action-packed plot – it’s about people, human interaction and tremendous acting. Based on Neil Lehane’s novel, Mystic River is the story of ...
...each persons face lit. Mystic River is just over 2 hours long but really did not feel like it. I felt so engrossed in the acting and emotions that despite not being a fast paced action movie it never seemed to drag. It is rated 15 and is available from www.cdwow.com at £6.99 (with a deluxe 3 CD edition at £12.99 rated 18), www.play.com at £7.99 and www.blahdvd.com at £8.49. The standard DVD version features one special feature in the form of a making ...

audreyh 10.02.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...director, including films such as Mystic River, The Bridges of Madison County and Million Dollar Baby. The plot Three childhood friends, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine are reunited over the murder of Jimmy's beautiful young daughter, Katie. Sean is one of the detectives assigned to the case and Dave, who has had some contact with Jimmy over the years, was one of the last people to see Katie alive. As a sub-plot, there is also the story ...
...the road, when they are stopped by two men claiming to be police. They force Dave into the car; after which he goes missing for several days, until he manages to escape. The three boys' friendship is never quite the same after this episode. As the investigation into Katie's death continues, it becomes clear that Dave, who didn't return home until very late that night and was covered in blood, is trying to hide something. But was it as innocent as ...

sunmeilan 23.03.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

Clint Eastwood is a name that most households in the UK will be familiar with. The picture in most people’s minds will be that of Dirty Harry, or another character he has played, however not many people realize that his has become increasingly more present behind the camera as a director. His past efforts have not been that well received with the exception of 'Unforgiven', and he had taken a lengthy break, until he decided to take on this project. ...
...this film, then give it your full attention from the very start. I watched it with my mum who paid little attention to the first 15 minutes, and then plagued me with pointless questions which spoiled my first viewing of the film as I was too distracted. I later watched it alone, and really got to grips with the story and what Eastwood was trying to do. The film starts with a group of three young friends Jimmy Marcus, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle, ...

nicanddarrell 15.08.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

Mystic River 2003, Drama/Crime, 137 mins. Based on the Novel by Dennis Lehane, writer of TV series The Wire 2002. Directed by Clint Eastwood, with an all-star cast winning two 2 Academy Awards, Best actor Sean Penn, Best Supporting Actor, Tim Robbins, this is a film not to be missed. When 3 boys, Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) were growing up together in Boston the terrible events of their childhood ...
...Pollock. From her success in Mystic River she also got a role in the recent film Mona Lisa’s Smile. Marcia gives convincing performance as Dave’s wife, and shows a lot of emotion, that a mother in fear would. Laura Linney (Anna Beth Markum) received Academy Award Nominations for a Screen Actors Guild award, Golden Globe award and Independent Sprit awards for her role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lanergan’s “You Can Count on Me”. Laura’s performance ...

LIZKEMPO 02.08.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

...that one disturbing film. Mystic River seemed to bring me out of that way of thinking with his performance as Sean. I would have put Bacon’s character down as the killer! Not only did this film hold my interest, but I find myself intimately drawn in by each and every one of the characters, this accredited to the fantastic direction by Eastwood and the full on powerful cast performances, as above, joined by Laurence Fishbourne, Laura Linney and Marcia ...
...Academy Award for his role – and rightly deserved, he was on form as ever. And a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award was won by Tim Robbins whose performance was outstanding, possibly his best. The DVD features ‘2003 Bravo TV Special – From Page to Screen’ bonus feature. I didn’t watch it, so can not give my opinion. Directed by: Clint Eastwood Written by: Brian Helgeland (Screenplay) Dennis Lehane (Book) Released: 2003 DVD run time: 132 ...

theshinyone 19.07.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

He may not be my favourite actor, but as a director Clint Eastwood has made some pretty good films – from as far back as “High Plains Drifter” in the 70s, and most especially “The Unforgiven”. “Mystic River” is the best film he’s made since “The Bridges of Madison County”, and that was 8 years ago, so perhaps it’s about time. Bridges was a gentle kind of movie, and this one has next to nothing in common with it, but it’s definitely a return to form. ...
...Clint Eastwood, good actor that he is, no longer appears in his own movies as a matter of course, and he isn’t in this one himself. And there’s no need for him to be either – the cast here is excellent – Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins – you couldn’t really ask for a better cast. The story of “Mystic River” is taken from Dennis Lehane’s novel, although there are a few alterations to it. No one can ever say that seeing the film is the same ...

rsmith 11.10.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

This was a welcome return to form for the big man, Clint Eastwood. Since Unforgiven, Eastwood seemed to be going through the motions directing some stodgily average movies like Space Cowboys and Blood Work. But here, teaming up with L.A. Confidential's screenwriter, Brian Helgeland, he creates this ambitious, atmospheric mystery drama and gets some fantastic performances from his talented cast. Sean Penn is an explosive brutal force and has many ...
...he feels from losing his daughter. Tim Robbins has the difficult role as the rather simple minded Dave Boyle, an edgy, wild-eyed character who is haunted by his horrific past. Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne make for a believable and likeable team as the cops on the case. Marcia Gay Harden gives yet again a fearless performance as Dave's confused and frightened wife and Laura Linney gives a sly take on a Lady MacBeth-style figure. It's an outstanding ...

Syklone 15.08.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

Mystic River is a suspense thriller/drama which follows the investigation of the murder of a teenage girl. Her father (Sean Penn), the detective (Kevin Bacon) and one of the main suspects (Tim Robbins) all live in the neighbourhood who's banks rest on the Mystic River. They have lived there all their lives and were good friends as children until a life changing event shook their world forever. Years later the men don't really see much of each other ...
...the girl's murder. The film follows each of the 3 men in their plight in dealing with what has gone on and their efforts to find the killer. From the outset you find yourself drawn into the movie and into the characters' lives. With Tim Robbins as the main suspect I found myself constantly asking the questions "Did he? Didn't he?" and my mind was changing all the time. It is a very sad and emotive movie which is cleverly directed and very well ...

denzil82 24.10.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)

A brilliant movie! One which kept me and my mum guessing all the way through. Although slightly slow paced the time flew by and before we knew it the movie was all over. Surely that is a sign of a great movie! Dark and thrilling, kept me griped from start to end. This is a film which I have watched over and over again since I've owed it. I have shown it to many friends and have never found anyone to give it a bad review. The direction and acting ...
...lis of cast and crew. Not once did I find myself disapointed. It's one to watch with friends on a night in with a good movie. If you're looking for a laugh it wont satisfy your humour but if it's a great realistic story with emotive and challenging plot then this will deliver on all accounts. One to watch without doubt! ...

ewaller 14.08.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Mystic River (DVD)