criscal

The outstanding part of this TV show is the acting, especially that of the lead playing the little boy. The cinematography would be good enough for a movie feature. The split into the different episodes seems pretty formulaic, though. First episode is the police work and the intimidating atmosphere at the station. The second episode is about what happened at school. The impressive third episode is about the psychologist having her talk with the boy and the last episode is about what the boy's family is going through and how they are in the danger of falling apart. The mixed feelings comes from missing whole perspectives. The family of the victim is never in the focus. The victim is never in the focus. There is no trial and the various partys' reaction to its outcome. There is absolutely no media involvement. What fuels the discussion about this mini-series is in my opinion about the struggle of parents trying to be good parents - and finding no resolve, hitting home with all parents watching this show.

I gave the movie 6 stars for some decent cinematography and most of all the performance of Russel Crowe.

He plays the main character who is an ex-cop and who has Alzheimers and he basically has only fragments of memory remaining. Why he lives by himself might be attributed to the American health system but he should be basically considered fully handicapped and therefore live in a nursing facility and not stay by himself, especially with a gun. There is a revelation during the movie and the problem is that the motives of at least one character does not make any sense any more in hindsight. Other than that seems to be a mix of two better known movies.