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Release Date: Aug 09, 2002; Rated: R; Length: 105 Minutes; Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller; With: Wanda De Jesus and Clint Eastwood
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Clint Eastwood's acting is now all squint, rasp, sinew, and bone, but damned if he doesn't have a few tricks left in him. His new movie is a sturdy, if dawdling, adding-up-the-clues serial-killer mystery that turns out to be one or two notches cleverer than you expect. Eastwood's character is a retired FBI agent who turns solo investigator despite the fact that he's recently had a heart transplant. The star is now playing a man whose will is stronger than his body, and it's that tension -- between anger and frailty, steel and decay -- that powers the movie. As a goofy loser, Jeff Daniels springs a few image-retooling tricks of his own.
Posted Aug 23, 2002
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