Gerald “Stone” Creeson (Edward Norton) has already spent eight of his ten years stint in prison; he is eligible for parole but needs the approval of Officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro). To get it he ask his wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to seduce him.
This is an extremely frustrating movie. There are great performances from all the leads, including Milla Jovovich who shows that actually when given the right material she is a surprisingly good actor.
There are also all the basis for a nice psychological drama with the quiet desperation of Mabry life and the radio forever tuned to a religious channel but then the film starts meandering and lose itself among a conversion to an incredibly bizarre religion (something about sound and silence) and a role reversal between De Niro and Norton that should be poignant and instead feels contrived.
Is like the writer started working on the plot and then stopped halfway. I can understand that sometimes an open ending is the best ending but really in this movie there is no ending at all, no resolution, nothing. The plot fades away and disappear, stuff happens but we don’t why, everybody put on a serious face like something important was happening in their life but we don’t know because the movie doesn’t tell us!
This is indeed a rare movie, such a waste of good actors delivering their a game is really rare.
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