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Pretty Good

Just perfect...

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

So good..... Jones and Goodman are amazing.... the only downside is sarsgard and Macdonald.... the movie would've been just as great without their flighty characters...

Atmospheric is probably the best summation of this movie. There is a recognizable sense of southern atmosphere - dark and brooding, that permeates constantly throughout the story. This is also the best thing about the movie. The story line itself comes across as disconnected and disjointed. Whether this is intended or not; it doesn't work. I always felt like it was missing something. Developments seemed to happen without explanation. It almost feels watching it now that it was approaching something as weighty and hard hitting as the dark quality of True Detective's first season in moments - but it just never got there. I enjoyed Tommy Lee Jones but thought that his character should have been consistently harder and darker. John Goodman was shaping up to be quite enjoyable as a mob boss but he never got enough quality screen time or character development. Both their performances deserved better. I did enjoy the movie as a whole - I just felt a little disappointed afterwards because I feel that it could have been something great but too many moments of inconsequential sub plots cluttered and devalued it's brooding atmosphere. Also the music score was really ill fitting and I rarely ever comment on that.

Yeah, OK, I get the lowish rating.Like they used to say in the 1920s, everyone's a critic.Truer than ever I suppose, with the IMDb.But the strange thing is that I have now seen this movie beginning to end about a half-dozen times and I don't tire of it.That's unusual.Especially with some 600 IMDb reviews under my belt, even I get curious when it is so easy to get lost, to lose time, in what seems at first glance to be just another police procedural with multiple instances of the word "chere" in the script...? Then I look closer and go aha! Jones and Goodman. Jones and Goodman. Jones and Goodman.Two of the best that Hollywood ever produced, each an extraordinarily well-rounded actor, yet each with a special gift at portraying one specific type of character.Jones portraying a cop with no off button, who only knows that every crime must be solved.And Goodman playing a larger than life character who only knows that every event in his life must end with him on top, no matter who has to die in the process. Literally.They take a mundane procedural to the level of art.Mary Steenburgen helps. The whole supporting cast is fine.But Jones and Goodman are doing their best work here, leaving a legacy for actors of the future to study.And no one noticed.Until just now.

Dave Robicheaux is a no-nonsense detective(... why, yes, that is Tommy Lee Jones' role, however did you guess? He does fine with what he's given to work with, and is enjoyable to watch), simultaneously investigating a serial killer who targets prostitutes and a 1965 lynching, and gets advice from a long-dead Confederate general who only he can see(and he doubts that the officer is indeed real). I have not read the novel this is an adaptation of, but I feel confident in asserting that it was butchered in writing this screenplay(as often happens with this sort of thing, in various ways). This is just exactly a cohesive whole, and at times, it stops short of even that. The plot feels unresolved by the end of it, and the conclusion to the mystery doesn't satisfy(assigning someone the blame for a crime in a story like this isn't enough). Characters are introduced, do little, and are treated to next to no development. The only 93 minutes of running time tend to snail away. This does give a decent look into the environment of post-Katrina New Orleans, and the race relations. There's a bunch of weird stuff that I guess is either because of what was cut from the source material, or is a cultural thing, such as all the talking about producing films in the state. This can be somewhat exciting when it tries to be, which isn't often. There is a moderate amount of strong language and bloody, violent and disturbing content, as well as brief female topless nudity. I recommend this only to big fans of the deadpan Texan. 6/10