In one of the Boston's toughest neighborhoods, a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, a 4-year-old girl goes missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angela Gennaro (Michelle Monahan) don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything -- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives -- to find a little girl-lost.This is Ben Affleck's directorial debut, also adapting this screenplay himself from the author of "Mystic River", Dennis Lehane. He does a good job of getting great characters out of a solid core of actors I think. The best actor in the film is Ben's brother Casey, who does a wonderful job of seeming very human and right in his own element. It's also very well shot, feeling very bleak and somber, like the setting and the storyline itself. It has a very nice pace and keeps you guessing and paying attention through the twists and turns of the story.
In the end though, it's really a tale of ethics and morals, and hammers home scenes in the last 10 minutes that will have you questioning what you would do in the situations and what is really right and wrong, if there really is a right choice. That makes the film, in my opinion, more powerful than most. It doesn't end when the film stops but leaves you thinking.
A very solid thinking man's thriller.
8.5/10
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