Sunday, May 22, 2011
Innocents Lost
Just watched the new Jesse Stone movie, Innocents Lost. Lots of brooding. Then mulling. Then more brooding. Even the dog gets some brooding in. More shots of coffee cups than I've ever seen in a movie. More brooding. This is what happens when you have 30 minutes of plot and two hours to fill. Well, not two hours. Maybe only an hour when you figure in all the commercials. I used to like these movies. This one, not so much.
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Yes, I can't find any argument with your thoughts. I kind of saw the end coming. Not much of a payoff for all the brooding, eh?
I haven't seen it yet...but this is what happens when actors start taking creative control of their series. Blame Tom Selleck.
I like Tom Selleck as an actor.I like the character. But too much of a good thing ... To paraphrase you, this is too much and not enough.
In a way, I'm kind of glad to hear this. I was tempted to re-arrange my DVR recording schedule to fit it in, as I was already booked solid for both hours. (I've found Sunday to be the busiest night of recording for me.)
But then I decided it just wasn't worth the trouble......
It was, by far, the weakest of the Jesse Stone movies. Not even a half-hour of genuine story (and how many times have killers come to Jesse's house to shoot him?). No mystery, no detection, just lots of shots of people drinking coffee...and repeats of banter from previous movies (does Parker get a residual every time someone says "coply intuition?")
Selleck tried hard to channel Parker and ended up channeling Parker's cousin Irving. I hope some of the plot points will be resolved in Jesse Stone #8.
I agree with your take, Bill. This was the first weak link in an otherwise fine series.
(When it comes to brooding that dog does a damn fine job!)
Thanks for the warning. Now I can (one hopes) get Jackie to delete it as we have enough stuff on the DVR already.
Jeff
I DVRed this one. Was looking forward to it. Sad.
And now we have a Jesse Stone novel coming in September by someone other than Parker. Written by the same guy who helped make this movie.
Guess I'm gonna wait to see how that one goes before picking it up.
It would have been a lot shorter without all the echo dialogue. It seemed that every time a character said something, Stone had to repeat it.
I agree with David. That dog is a helluva character actor. I'm serious. He's been in a lot of stuff and he's always good.
I don't know if he's good enough to get me to keep watching these, though.
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