Mystic River

Clint Eastwood has created a film that has not only been (by far) one of the best this year, but one of the most entertaining. As the story pulls you into its depth, you can't help but notice not only its... Full review

WARNING! This includes spoilers, but nothing compared to the 2 1/2 hour waste of time spoiler I endured. We know going into this that the actors involved in this project are great. There was no need to prolong most of the... Full review

March 2004 may set Oscar history. I estimate this will be the first time The Best Actor and Actress nominations will be heavily lead by men and women from one film. I viewed Mystic River last night on my wedding anniversary... Full review

The nauseating accolades that this monstrous movie has received just prove that Hollywood does its job very well. Throw in some brilliant actors, clever cinematography, a melodramatic score and an iconic director, and voilà - suspension of disbelief - of... Full review

Three young friends play in the Boston street. They start to misbehave and a car approaches and a man climbs out looking like a cop, acting like a cop and seeming to have police ID. He beckons one boy over.... Full review

After a while, one has come to expect mediocrity from Clint Eastwood. "Blood Work" "Space Cowboys" and "Sudden Impact" all shining examples of this. But what he has here is true; sophisticated, intricate and rewarding. Viewing is definitely recommended.Three boys,... Full review

Most murder mysteries go the way of unleashing tension and a mounting sense of suspense and danger as the plot originating from the murder in itself reveals red herrings and a more sinister plot underneath just waiting to be discovered.Clint... Full review

After three eleven year-olds from a close-knit lower middle class Boston suburb undergo a tragic experience where one is abducted and abused for four days, their lives diverge. The abducted one never overcomes the emotional trauma, another begins a life... Full review

Lovers of great acting had best not pass up 'Mystic River,' Clint Eastwood's powerful, award-laden adaptation of Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon play three working class Bostonians forever bound together by a mutual childhood... Full review

Twenty years ago, the boys Jimmy Markun, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle are neighbors and pals, playing hockey on the street. One day, Dave is kidnapped by two men, being sexually abused, but escapes from them four days later. In... Full review

It does have a very good track by Tim Robbins (himself an accomplished director) and Kevin Bacon, who contributes a couple of brief Eastwood impersonations. All it lacks is a Clint Eastwood commentary track. ... Full Review

Shot on location in and around Boston, Mystic River is graced by the work of a superlative cast. The talented Harden (Pollock) gets better with each film. ... Full Review

Mystic River is original, insightful, emotional, and something I never want to sit through again. His growing instability leads even his wife (Marcia Gay Harden) to mistrust him as he grapples with the horrific events of his boyhood. ... Full Review

Mystic River" shows us that scenario through varying stages of recovery and deterioration, all of it somewhat essential in the shaping, bending and/or breaking of the human psyche. Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" opens with an event that will inevitably challenge every moral character throughout the movie, a scene in which one of three childhood friends is dragged off against his will in the back seat of a car as his buddies watch on in paralyzed gazes. ... Full Review

Mystic River" is the best film that Clint Eastwood has directed in his career. Despite the flawed ending minutes, this movie is still one of the best movies I have seen this year. ... Full Review

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Some years the Oscar race comes down to two movies, both with different profiles. For example, in 1994, critical darling Pulp Fiction lost to the exceedingly popular Forrest Gump . Another split occurred in 1997 between Titanic and LA Confidential... ... Full Article

Mystic River is Clint Eastwood's best movie since Unforgiven in 1992. It probably won't be as popular, because he's not acting in it and it's not resolved with the neat purity of a gunfight, but it crowns his long career ... Full Article

Dave, Jimmy, Sean.Three childhood friends growing up in a tough suburb of Boston.Their lives are irrecoverably changed when trauma befalls one of them. ... Full Article

Sober and imposing, Clint Eastwoods Mystic River spreads over the screen with a sense of purpose.It knows its an important movie, and means to let you know it too. ... Full Article