The Crossing Guard
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Movie Reviews of The Crossing Guard
Movie Review: A great film that evokes powerful emotion with incredible acting
Summary: 5 Stars
This film shows what a great script and amazing actors can pull off. Penn does an amazing job pulling everything together to project a general feeling of despair. Few films send such a powerful emotion.
David Morse, who I believe makes every movie his is in (Green Mile, Contact, Hearts in Atlantis) much better, puts in an amazing performance as someone whose guilt is unshakable.
Jack of course is a living legend, but this is a performance that really transcends the typical greatness we have come to expect. He really makes you feel a piece of the powerful grief he lives with, and somehow makes you laugh.
Angelica Houston is just about the only actress I have seen steal a scene from someone like Nicholson with such subtlety. One of my favorite scenes is Nicholson and Houston in the dinner. At the conclusion, you can almost feel the door slam on their relationship.
And Robin Wright Penn gives the best performance of her career. Obviously the man and wife relationship helped Penn know how to best play her strengths. The scene when Morse confesses his worst secrets to Wright is amazing. She has few lines, but really shows volumes in her reaction.
I recently watched The Woodsman and felt that Sedgwick also did an amazing job in the same type of scene, but yet went in a completely different direction.
This film is often compared to The Pledge, and rightfully so. In my opinion though, The Crossing Guard is by far a better film. The fact that Penn had to wait until Mystic River to get his Oscar credit is a shame. This movie was overlooked.
Movie Review: Tour de Force!
Summary: 5 Stars
I puzzle at those reviewers criticizing this film, which to my mind is a tour de force. Of course, I do volunteer work with dying folks and help train aspiring grief counselors to deal with the traumas that life all too often brings us. I can only assume that those who so quickly dismiss this powerful meditation on grief and remorse have yet to experience these real life emotions. Something by Schwarzenegger may be more to their taste, or one of the ubiquitous comic book recreations we encounter most summers with cardboard characters and pseudo emotions. Sean Penn is plumbing much deeper regions of the human psyche, and doing so with actors of rare talent, fully capable of sharing with us their heart rending vulnerabilities. Few actors have the courage to go to the places these actors visit as they face suffering almost too great to bear. I'm reminded of the more recent Mystic River that explores equally traumatizing events. It was heartening to watch the joy with which Sean Penn's Academy award for his performance in that Clint Eastwood film was greeted by his fellow professionals who have long acknowledged this young man's genius both in front of and behind the camera. The Crossing Guard deserves a wider audience and will surely reward the discerning viewer with a deeply felt movie experience. Check it out for yourself!
Movie Review: Deeper than It looks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched The crossing guard last night again for the 2nd time. It was 4:00am in the morning, and I had my ear phones plugged into the TV. What really hit home is the complexity that exists within this beautifully orchastrated film. The journeys each character takes, as people, dealing with their own inner feelings works in a way that I feel a lot of films don't do any more. I can't really critisise any acting in the film, although I do question Jacks ability to cry on celluloid! The end scene is a bit drawn out, and yet has a kind of zen about it. The soundtrack complements the film perfectly. And watch out for the opening sequence as Jack walks accross New York, I think the music complements him down to a Tee! Watch this film in a quiet room. But If you are feeling depressed, or somebody in the family just died, maybe watch Bambi... actually don't do that either! Watch Independence day, that always makes me laugh!Movie Review: Tragic and Beautiful... Like Life
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read all of Bukowski's work, but I'm not sure there's a connection here. Sean Penn dedicated this film to Henry (Charles) Bukowski because the two were friends and Bukowski died before this film was released. Anyway, this IS NOT a Bukowski-esque work in any way.
However, this film is a very believable and touching film about how rage and the desire for revenge can completely consume a person. It's also about the power and beauty of forgiving those who have wronged you.
I don't think the film contains a lot of cliches, in fact, I think there are many moments of fresh, believable dialogue. Especially the scenes between Nicholson and Houston. Amazing!
This film shares many of the same themes as 21 Grams, which is also good, but not as good as The Crossing Guard.
Movie Review: THIS STORY IS A MASTERPIECE WITH Jack NICHOLSON...
Summary: 5 Stars
...And David MORSE ! ... This tall man has killed his child, his son, and ever since this time he has ONE idea ! ONE project in his mind: " KILL HIM WHEN HE WILL GO OUT THE PRISON " He has lost anything, his wife, his comfort, his welfare when this man who was drunken at the time of facts and his revenge is puting near day after day this is an obsession for him, he go to advertise his almost former wife who he is outdoors but after a follow-up he doubt of himself, because his enemy goes around the tomb of his child while him himself has never made that this is a sort of redemption for these two men and mostly a forgiveness for the killer ! Jack NICHOLSON and David MORSE are perfects in this DVD MOVIE FILM ! A GOOD TEAM