Wander

I love detective movies set up in the rural or sun soaked settings but this one is far from it.

6 stars only cos of the two lead actors and that too, coincidentally both played Harvey Dent/Two-Face.

A mentally unstable conspiracy theorist and private detective is hired to investigate an accident in a small town. The detective suspects the accident to be a murder n part of a conspiracy cover up that caused the death of his daughter. Sounds good uh. But the execution is not at all interesting or captivating. Sneaking in and outta Fox Hole so easily, everything served on the table n no threat involved, directly or indirectly, cud have at least put some sense into our detective. A very weak n predictable ending.

Have no idea, why everybody hates this film ?By any means it is not a master piece ,but it is pretty well done,with a very good acting and ok story,Not a bad one time watch!

Wish they just would've played this old story straight. Definitely a couple of extra stars would've wandered into my rating.

Seen enough movies and you know where this is headed after a while. But, to keep the movie's "suspense," it's about a grieving ex-cop whose wife is comatose & daughter dead after a car accident and his quest to prove conspiracy theories. He does wander into a Wicker Man mystery in a small desert town and believes he can prove: everyone's in on it!

I'm not a fan of conspiracy theorists. I pity them and their quest for attention. Boy, do they want to be right and brag they're one of the very few & brave who knew the big, bad secrets when everyone else was ignorant. They want you to question everything when they, themselves, just believe one anonymous and laughably unreliable source.

Well, that's this movie and we're following that sad man around while he is both "on the run" from "them" and finding every clue involved in a big cover-up that no one else can prove. At first, I wish they gave us a reliable narrator as this movie has some very fine actors. But, I didn't create this movie.

Or did I? Prove it! Look it up!

Just kidding. It's passable and mercifully short. I love small desert town mysteries and Tommy Lee Jones. So, it's such a slight recommendation.

***

Final Thoughts: Don't watch the trailer. As always, they spoil the very last shot. THIS conspiracy is real, by the way. They purposely ruin the third act, twists and/or final shot in far too many trailers. I had to give up on watching trailers I used to love my whole life since the nice surprise of the movies was wiped out long before I even see the movie.

There's some great shots, good actors, good production values all-round. Even the script is pretty good for about the first half. Then Eckhart sort of spirals, becoming less believable and the script takes a turn into full con conspiracy theory stuff that makes less and less sense. While they try to make this interesting with him being mentally ill, it doesn't feel well done enough to be anything other than something that could have been fun, but stumbles repeatedly.

Firstly I'll start off by saying I think Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones and Heather Graham are all good actors and they do a decent job in the movie. However, Eckhart's acting is a bit over the top sometimes that it almost comes across as a cheesy B-movie, especially the shots when it's zooming out from his face when he's having flashbacks or waking up.

The story itself was quite predictable, at about the halfway point you can hazard a guess about the main character, although they don't explain much in the movie. At times I found this movie a bit boring and slow despite it being only 90mins.

Some of the shots and the sequencing also weren't enjoyable either as it was just all over the place much like the story. I also wasn't a fan of the ending. When it all happened I didn't feel any emotion for the character at all other than being glad the movie was over.

Finally, this was just a small nitpicking thing, but if you are paranoid like the main character and afraid of being spied on that you are constantly changing your phone SIM card, you definitely would not plug a random usb stick into your laptop that has been mysteriously slipped through your door.