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only upstanding citizens around, or so you think. Morgan Freeman plays the haunted police captain Jack Doyle and Ed Harris shows up as the tough-as-nails detective Remy Bressant. It’s a winding tale filled with such dead-end hopelessness that it’s actually quite sad.
To put it simply, Ben Affleck just overdoes it in his first directing venture. He overdoses on the film’s “grittiness”, its violence, its darkness, to the point of utter bleakness. There’s a child molestation subplot, so unnecessarily gruesome it’ll make you cringe in horror.
Whether you like this film or not surely depends on taste. But for me one thing’s for certain—after watching Gone Baby Gone the only taste I was left with was bitterness.
Movie Grade: C-
Synopsis:
Based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same title, "Gone, Baby, Gone" is a story about a two detectives in search of a 4 year old girl that has been kidnapped in Boston. |
