Rating of
4/4
Eastwood's River flows in at #34........
Mr. B.K. Tinney - wrote on 04/24/09
I will be the first to say it....Clint Eastwood is every bit as good as a director as he is an actor. This movie is very powerful and although I was left unsatisfied somewhat at the ending how could you not love this movie overall. Sean Penn is brilliant as usual and although he is not a personal favorite of mine, Tim Robbins does his best work since Shawshank. Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne are good in limited roles and you could not add a better 1-2 female support team than Laura Linney and Marcia Gay Harden. Clearly though, this all works because of the material of writer Dennis Lehane and the direction of Eastwood, who doesn't even have to be in front of the camera in this one.
