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  Review by miyasinger ★★½ 8

  WHY IS LAURENCE FISHBURNE’S CHARACTER NAMED WHITEY POWERS 

  WHITEY
  POWERS
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  Review by Chris 🦑 ★½ 72

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  When your entire ‘message’ can be summed up with “murdering an innocent man because he’s mentally ill and his memory is fragmented due to severe trauma is okay because you did it for your family” and there’s even a line towards the end that’s supposed to be deep that goes like “survivors of child sexual abuse have it hard for their entire lives but maybe we ALL do. Think about that...” maybe you shouldn’t be making movies. Tim Robbins’ character died a horrible and ugly death and suffered the entire movie while Kevin bacon Sean penn were just like well that’s over. Still friends though right?

  God this was just a mediocre movie until the entire last act just made it disgusting

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  Review by Madhav ★★ 13

  Such a disappointing ending to an overall underwhelming film. Jimmy’s character is basically a glorified fucking asshole who thinks that he’s the judge, jury, and executioner in any moral dilemma. Nothing wrong with a character like that, except you shouldn’t have a fucking monologue delivered by his tone deaf wife justifying his behavior in the name of “love” and calling her trash ass husband a king. The glorification of Jimmy’s character is not the only lose end of this film, the rest of the ending sequence and character motivations feel just as broken. Not to mention that the whole bit about Kevin Bacon’s wife is completely useless and adds nothing to the plot.

  I’m just so fucking tired of hyper…

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★½ 1

  Sometimes overacted, sometimes taxing, but pretty intense through and through.

  I have to say, I was pretty disappointed by Sean Penn’s performance early on in the movie, but it did grow on me. As soon as he started taking control of the situation, I started loving him in this film.

  It’s a pretty well constructed movie, minus a few scenes that could have been cut (the parade scene for example). The way information is revealed to different people at different times is what drives the intensity up.

  I think that Kevin Bacon is sneakily the best performance here. He probably doesn’t get credit because it’s a much less showy party but I found it more believable.

  Characters are constantly confronted…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★

  lehane's overbearing fatalism expressed here with an almost unbearable patience, this is eastwood at his most elemental... man's basest instincts rendered both tragic and horrifying, his violence creating eternal waves of trauma, consuming the mind and soul of everyone within reach.

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  Review by neve ★★★★

  honestly laura linney's character was the most fucked out of all of them

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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★★★ 9

  “We bury our sins here, Dave. We wash them clean.”

  Mystic River and Unforgiven are my two favorite Clint Eastwood films and depending on which one I see last I tend to put in first place. Right now I’m inclined to declare Mystic River as Eastwood’s best film, but that is subject to change anytime (perhaps even before I finish writing this review). Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film won two: Sean Penn for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Tim Robbins for Best Supporting Actor. I was rooting for Brian Helgeland’s wonderful screenplay adaptation from Dennis Lehane’s novel, but it lost out to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Helgeland had previously won…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★½ 1

  A tale of two movies that as often happens in Eastwood's work shine a light into each other. One, the big tragedy with all its fireworks, call it the Penn/Robbins film, the other, the stoic grunt police investigation with Bacon and Fishburne. The first one got the Oscars (literally) and most of the attention at the time, but it wouldn't work without the other as Bacon's performance, the closest an Eastwood movie has to someone else imitating him (and to a large extant an echo of Eastwood's own work in A Perfect World) is not only the best in the movie (and one of the best ones in any of his movies), but in its functional withdraw with those tired…

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  Review by yas ꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱ ★★★

  bro dave deserved so much better, fuck jimmy and his annoying ass wife.

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  Review by Austin Gorski ★★★★½ 3

  "Is that my daughter in there?"

  Wow, I can't believe it took me this long to watch this. Clint Eastwood had some serious balls for even attempting to tackle this type of subject matter at the time, and I congratulate him for that. The entire cast is phenomenal, especially Penn and Robbins, and like every other Clint Eastwood film, the cinematography is great. Even if the twist was a bit of a let down, Mystic River isn't as focused on it's mystery story as it is about the relationship between the three leads throughout their lives, which in a way made it a better film overall. Easily one of the better mystery films from the early 2000's.

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  Review by Damaris 🍹 ★★★½ 2

  I’m not saying that all Boston movies are the same but

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★ 2

  FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU