Director : Gary Fleder
Running Time : 114 mins
When Dr Nathan Conrad (Douglas) discovers that his daughter Jessie (McCole Bartusiak) has been kidnapped, he is surprised when the demands from kidnapper Patrick Foster (Bean) are for Conrad to help a traumatised mental health patient, Elisabeth Burrows (Murphy), to come to terms with her fears about witnessing her father’s death. It isn’t long before Conrad finds out that Elisabeth holds the secret to the location of a fortune in gems that her father stole from Foster and hid in a cemetery plot.
This had the potential to be a really good movie if it wasn’t for all the plot holes. Murphy’s character knows where the gem is hidden – how does bean know? Her dad sure as hell never told him, and it’s really convenient that he knows exactly what form the hidden information took and that the number he needs refers to a cemetery plot. And Douglas throws away the gem instead of returning it to the rightful owners? That ending annoyed the hell out of me. Still, Murphy’s performance is really good (I think this was what, the third time she played a locked up loony) which in some ways managed to help me ignore the mistakes throughout this movie.
You’ll like this if you liked : Shutter Island
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