June 3, 2007
This is a very dark film, both thematically and visually. It is about infidelity, revenge, murder, and manipulation of the justice system. Both Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling act up a storm. Even if he did not intend it (or maybe he did), Hopkins had a Hannibal Lecter feel in his character. The actor who played the cop Nunnaly, Billy Burke (from "24"), was very hammy. Gosling's new boss, played by icy Rosamund Pike, was, for me, a useless character. This angle was the worst written part of this film. The revelations were done well, but I can't help feeling I have seen this kind of resolution somewhere else before.
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