Being a fan of Michael Connelly (i'm working my way through his books) I was really looking forward to seeing this movie, especially i'd just finished reading the novel. As others have said, the first half stuck pretty much to what was in the book but there were a lot of unnecessary changes made, biggest and worst of all was changing the role of the killer. For those who haven't read the book, the killer, Buddy No one should have been the computer guy who witnessed the Cordell murder at the ATM, the boat bum should've been a good guy!) The other big disappointment was the total lack of atmosphere in this movie, mainly due to the fact that there was a virtually non existent score! The editing was quite poor too, sometimes making the film seemingly drag along, especially in the action scenes.
Altogether a generally poor effort. It's hard to believe this came from the same director as Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.
Altogether a generally poor effort. It's hard to believe this came from the same director as Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.