Stone (2010)
Summary
Genre: DramaGoodies:
+ Decent actingBaddies:
- Terrible characters, - Confusing plot and story, -Parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he’s been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald “Stone” Creeson (Edward Norton), a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner’s pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception
Blawkward — This is the word I made up this film. It was not a good film, flatout, which is odd because it had such a great cast of characters. I like all of these actors, but I guess when you put them all together, you get crap. First of all, i’m not sure why religion (and then Zagathor, or whatever it was?) was such a big part of the film because it never was really resolved (just like why they kept zooming in on De Niro’s ring?). The acting was good, but I would say the characters were doomed from the get-go, and the points the film tried making just didn’t work at all (the reason they show what the husband does in the beginning and how that relates to the message of “people do bad things, and sometimes they feel there is no redemption for them” — does not ever full come to fruition). The film was just that, blah, and there were parts that were just awkward (especially when Norton’s character becomes ‘enlightened’). Overall, I would say it was a waste of my time, I just got no enjoyment out of the film. The description made the film sound great, and the parts that had to do with the description lasted about 15 minutes in the film, and the rest really had nothing to do with anything. Stay away, and go see something good.
