GeraldRice   02-21-2011, 01:20 PM
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Meh movie about a retiring parole officer whose last case is a southwest Detroiter convicted of arson 8 years before. Had the focus been on Norton instead of De Niro this may have been a better movie. De Niro's performance was fine, it was the character that was terrible. I get why the guy was so blah, he had absolutely no joy to his life. But why would you want to make a movie about such a character. Probably because of the intrigue created at Norton's wife, Jovovich seducing De Niro into a favorable opinion of her husband. But that's such an insignificant part of the movie--it could have been hinted at or told and a better story resulted by the focus being on Norton and his religious transformation. De Niro's character just didn't care about anything and I didn't care about him. This is one of those where the preview implied one thing and the movie gave me another, like Bug. Ugh! Bug.

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