Jofiseen

Thought this was an excellent film but perhaps the civil war storyline wasn't entirely required. Day Lewis is absolutely superb. Scenery is magnificent and the violence throughout is nicely tempered with the relationship and respect that builds between Amsterdam and the most violent movie character of many a year - The Butcher Bill Cummins ( Day Lewis )

9/10

Enjoyable,thought provoking film and well acted through out. The film reflects how easy it is for some one to be judged guilty once the buzzwords "pornography" "child abuse" and "paedophile" are used.

In this film a serious of playful innocent photos,some taken by the children themselves are construed as pornography by the local film processing lab who pass them onto the police and Pandora's box is opened when a cop on a crusade wants to make an example of the loving widowed mother of the 3 supposed "victims".

I heard very little about this movie which made me think it was poor with the 2 big names ( Affleck and Paltrow ) in the cast.

I was pleasantly surprised and was impressed by the acting of both leads ( previously felt Affleck was one dimensional ) and thorougly enjoyed this movie. Not so taxing on the brain ( Good Sunday afternoon fare ) but good nonetheless.

Watch for the Jennifer Grey ( Dirty Dancing's Baby ) part as the disgruntled airline employee.