The Pledge SPOILERS!!!

[DaveW]

Saw this last night thanks to the Sunday Torygraph.
Directed by Sean Penn, starring Jack Nicholson and a few other people in cameos.

This is the story of a cop who on his retirement day takes it upon himself to solve one last murder case. The problem is everyone else thinks it's already been solved because the only suspect is dead.

The film is very slow, yet such was Nicholson's performance that I was never bored and never looked at my watch during the 2 and a bit hours running time.

And the ending is great. I love the non-Hollywood endings that come up once in a while when someone's feeling brave and this is one of those times

So if you don't mind a slow build up I would recommend it, especially for Jack's performance.

[AndyWilson]

I think Ringos are selling the R1 DVD cheap at the moment...
..which they always do after I buy it :(

[Rhys]

I have just watched The Pledge and enjoyed it tremendously - the film isn't for action fans as it is slow moving - but with a great direction and atmosphere with Nicholson's performance, this is a very good film worthy of my notes for the R1 DVD

[Gethinnadin]

I read a lot about this film and think i may have hyped it up too much for myself. Watched it today. Nicholson is as excellent as always but after seeing 'As good as it gets' i find him funny even when he's not supposed to be!

A very original film. Slow, and perhaps too slow. If it was paced up this would be an excellent film, but as it stands its good and well worth seeing. Loadsa cameos too! Helen Mirren, Benito Del Toro to mention a few.

[Welshlad]

Watched this last night and thougth it was very good on the whole. I'm all for 'different' endings, and found it very interesting and intuitive, but i'm not sure if I liked the ending or not.
I thought JN was superb, and the atmosphere and tenstion created in subtle ways leading up to the picnic site scene at the end really worked well...
Thinking about it, it is nice to have a different method of ending the film (because lets face it, we all ecpected the same ending) but last night I was really dissapointed with the way it finished...Not sure why now though!

Good stuff...Just a shame the extras on the DVD are missing :rolleyes:

[Goblin]

It started of good, I thought it was going to be a good serial killer movie, but from there on it just didnt go anywhere..

Nicholsons performance was great, Del Toros as the Indian was brilliant...

I really expected a lot more from the film though, not one of Jacks best!

[theblairwitch]

Really enjoyed it - but for me Del Toro's performance was ridiculously over-played and knocked the film off kilter. It took about 20 minutes to get back on track.

For me of all the cameos - Vanessa Redgrave (as the child's grandmother) and Mickey Rourke were far more interesting performances.

[McMikey]

Well I've finally got out to the cinema today after a 2 week baren period which is a really long time for me to see this and brotherhood of the wolf. I really enjoyed this film and now I regret not watching a lot of Jack's earlier films which I think I will now do. I mean I've not even seen Chinatown and I think it might be worth seeing the crossing guard as well. Anyway in terms of this I thought

Oh no Tom Noonan getting stereotyped as the psycho murderer but he wasn't for once. I really felt sorry for Jerry (Jack) by the end of the film tho. I know what he was doing was wrong basically fishing with real people etc but still... compared to a James Ellroy character he's a nice guy

anyone read the book? Any good?

[Rincewind]

Enjoyed this a lot. Pace was not agonisingly slow IMO but I did come out of the movie feeling that Jack's character needed more of a character change than it had over the last quarter of the film to show the effect his obsession was having on him, though that's not to take anything away from his excellent performance and Benicio's wig!

Check out the Dutch made version of this story In The Cold Light of Day with Richard E. Grant and Simon Cadell (he of Hi-De-Hi fame) as the bad guy. Interesting.

[charlie angel]

I really liked this flick - not easy to watch by any stretch of the imagination, but ultimately rewarding anyhow.

Defies all thriller conventions & superb performances keep it riveting throughout.

Definitely recommended.

[Robby]

The one thing that i thought was implausible was.....

why did Jack committ to finding the girls killer, it seemed a little strange to burden himself with that. I know he's retiring and he probably doesn't want to leave but it just seemed a little 'off' that she would make him promise to find the killer. A very slow film but apart from that scene it was well acted by all involved IMO

Do we really need to censor our thoughts on this matter as it heading does state SPOILERS ????

[Grumpy]

Well worth a look but perhaps a bit on the slow side and the subject matter is a bit disturbing.
Sean Penn managed to get a lot of well know actors to appear in a film that kept my attention for the whole 2 hours.

[Mike]

I thought it was one of the best films I've seen this year. Genuinely intelligent and moving and ruthlessly ironic in a similar way to one of Nicholson's earlier triumphs, "The King Of Marvin Gardens". He hasn't been this good in a film since "The Crossing Guard"; the work here is daring and incredibly subtle. Nicholson has always been more interesting underplaying than overacting.

[Raphph]

thought it was excellent, and my official dvd times review is now up, check out the link in my sig!