Gone Baby Gone
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Movie Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
Movie Review: Powerful!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most powerful movies I've seen in a long time. Watch this movie and refer it to everyone you know. It is very interesting to talk to people about their reactions to this movie. The point of the movie is not about whether you're Irish, your neighborhood, etc. The reviewer who was insulted about the characters' ethnicity TOTALLY missed the point. This reaches much deeper. Check it out!Movie Review: Has its flaws, and some big ones, too, but still achieves something near greatness
Summary: 4 Stars
Ben Affleck's directorial debut, based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River was pretty good to me. Affleck's direction is more than adequate. I'm sure he's aping Clint Eastwood's film version of Mystic River much of the time, and there's one scene that's way too reminiscent of Se7en, but he shows a lot of skill. He's great at capturing his hometown of Boston and the people who live there.
The story revolves around the investigation of a missing girl. Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris are two of the major investigators for the police. The aunt of the missing girl hires Casey Affleck and his girlfriend, played by Michelle Monaghan, to do private investigation on the side, because they can maybe find some secrets that the girl's mother (Amy Ryan) might be hiding. It's a gripping mystery story, and it arrives at one quite satisfying twist. But then there's another twist. The second big twist is completely brainless, and then the previously excellent film starts to fall. This isn't unlike Mystic River, where, when we finally found out why Tim Robbins has been acting so strange all the time, I just had to slap my forehead. Gone Baby Gone is able to pull itself up a bit from its head-slapping plot revelation in its final moments, but I was still left feeling cheated. I also have to complain that Monaghan, as lovely as she is, adds very little. Would Affleck's character really put his girlfriend in such dangerous situations all the time? I'm sort of glad we're spared the whole clich? chatter where one of the two lovers fears for their significant other's safety, but bringing the beautiful woman into a powerful drug dealer's den sounds like a hostage situation waiting to happen.
Casey Affleck did deliver his second fine performance that year, though it isn't as good as his Robert Ford, which I think might some day be considered iconic. Credit to Affleck's direction that the film can still be considered good after some should-be fatal flaws so I say watch it and see it for yourself.
Movie Review: Just don't read the book
Summary: 1 Stars
After I read this book by Dennis Lehane, I went out and rented the movie. I wanted to see how the director portrayed some of the more interesting side characters in the plot. Cheese Olman for one. The book was full of Dennis Lehane's complex portrayals of interesting characters, and the quality of the plot twists were in line with other Dennis Lehane books, such as Mystic River. THAT movie, by the way, was a great adaptation of a great Lehane book.
I was appalled. The characters were so altered that I had no ability to compare these portrayals between the book and the movie. All characters became stereotypes reflecting today's typical scripts. I hope Dennis Lehane had no part in creating the script for this movie - it was dull, shallow, and the language unnecessarily went into the gutter, the characters were mutated to uninteresting ones with no depth. Even the characterization of the 2 main people, Angie and Patrick, made them shallow and dull.
The two most spectacular actors in the movie, Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris, were poorly directed. They had no depth and appeared to just read their lines - they are so much better than that. Amy Madigan was portrayed as a strident, witchy woman, very unlike her character as written.
The book will give you a much better understanding of all the characters. Don't waste your time with the movie.
Movie Review: Original with lots of surprising twists
Summary: 4 Stars
It's not often that something totally original comes out of Hollywood. It wasn't what I had expected, which made it interesting.Movie Review: Movie: 3.75/5 Picture Quality: 3.5~4.5/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 3/5
Summary: 4 Stars
Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 1:53:55
Movie size: 29,634,091,008 bytes
Disc size: 34,935,467,038 bytes
Average Video Bit Rate: 23.51 Mbps
* English Uncompressed PCM 5.1 Surround (48kHz/24-bit/6.9Mbps)
* English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (640kbps)
* French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (640kbps)
* Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (640kbps)
* English SDH
* French Subtitles
* Spanish Subtitles
#Director and Writer Commentary
#Deleted Scenes (HD, 17 minutes)
#Going Home: Behind the Scenes with Ben Affleck (HD, 7 minutes)
#Capturing Authenticity: Casting Gone Baby Gone (HD, 9 minutes)
#Trailers (HD, 6 minutes)