Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Amityville15 Vincent LaMarca's job is to arrest killers, but this job is different. The suspect he is tracking is his own son. As a cop, LaMarca must bring the accused to justice. As a father he must try and help his son. However LaMarca owes his son more than that as he walked out on him and he is also plagued by his own bad memories of his father and how he was executed for murder.This film starred: Robert De Niro, James Franco & Frances McDormand.City By The Sea was released in 2002. When I saw the trailers for this film I thought it was going to be really good. With a great actor like De Niro and an up-coming star in James Franco I was really expecting good things from this movie. However, in my opinion this film didn't deliver. It was OK but it bored me some parts and apart from the end scene I wasn't as moved as what I had expected from this film. I don't recommend this film because you will probably be left disappointed. ***/***** Could be worse.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Since he was eight years old NYPD homicide Detective Vincent LaMarco, Robert De Niro, had to live with the terrible memory that his father was a child murderer who was executed for his crime at Sing Sing prison. As a husband and father Vincent wasn't all that successful either having a broken marriage as well as his estranged son Joey, James Franco, ending up on the streets or boardwalk in Vincent's former home town of Long Beach as a junkie. It's when Joey got into an altercation with his drug supplier Pacassio, Jay Boryes, that lead to the dealer death, with Joey stabbing him in self defense, that finally got father and son together under the most trying and dangerous of circumstances.It's actor Robert DeNiro's incredible performance as heart broken and guilt ridden Vincent LaMarco that really stands out in the movie "City by the Sea". Trying to get his fugitive son to give himself up has Vincent's partner Detective Reg Duffy, George Dezundza, track down Joey in this abandoned warehouse in Long Beach where he's been hiding. It's there where Duffy is gunned down not by joey but drug supplier Spyder, William Forsythe. Spyder mistook Duffy for Joey whom he was out to get for killing one of his street pushers the late Paccisso. Now with the death of a policeman, as well as his father's partner Det. Reg Duffy, on his head Joey is a dead man walking unless his policeman dad Vincent DeMarco can bring him into custody before the local as well as NY police get to him first.***SPOILERS*** With Detective DeMarco putting both his job as well as life on the line he finally gets his son Joey to stop running and meet with him on the Long Beach boardwalk to arrange to give himself up. That after Vincent uncovered evidence that it was in fact Spyder, who was since shot to death by Joey in defending his father, not him who murdered his partner Detective Duffy. Still it took a lot of convincing on Vincent's part to get Joey to give himself up even with him taking a bullet, from a police sniper, for him. Vincent DeMarco was always living not only with the thought of his father being an executed child murderer but in him abandoning both his wife Maggie, Patti LuPone, and son Joey when they needed him most. It was this act of self sacrifice on Vincent's part that in the end more then made up for all that!

HanPolo This film is just awful. The only redeeming quality this film possesses is that they cast Eliza Dushku.That's it, folks. The people saying that it was good have an optimism complex larger than John Goodman. From Frances McDormand's awkward body language (and face touching) to Bob DeNiro's stilted play-up of father/son tensions to John Forsythe's contrived bad guy persona, this movie is downright terrible. I was surprised to learn it was made in 2002, since the score made it sound like it was from the mid-90s.And the fact that Eliza Dushku is hot doesn't really matter since she disappears 3/4 of the way through the movie after telling Bobby DeNiro that she is going back to using again. This is after the audience got no indication that she was having any trouble, and even witnessed her tell James Franco's character to stay clean earlier on.The film just tries way too hard to be dark. The drug use is visually brief, but referenced throughout. The setting is good (Long Beach, NY), but there's very little past-to-present context besides a few comments by the cast. The father/son element is meant to be two-fold, with DeNiro playing a guy battling his own father and his own son's fates, but by the end of the movie you can tell the writers did not have fun playing with that material.If I could give it negative stars, I would.

wlfgdn This is a story about ugly America and ugly Americans whose incessant greed and self-interest have caused their karma to destroy them and their families. At the center is a heartless and two-faced career NY police officer who makes his living busting everyday people for average offenses while at the same time writing off the murders committed by his own father and son as "mistakes".What we see is ecological karma at work as Mother Earth Gaia or perhaps even Jehovah punishes those who squander precious resources. The central family is typical of New Yorkers with heavy expenses and of the mentality that to have everything is the minimum expected. In one way or another this destroys three successive generations.The director is attempting to portray victimization as something that passes on down, but the plain fact is that each of these generations created their own issues.What I see as different from most, is to look at how much money and time society is forced to spend on these people. All the money made by the husband and wasted by the wife and child to begin with, add to it the expenses for a number of murder investigations, destruction of property, so on and so forth. What makes this dysfunctional family, this tiny group of selfish people, worth any of it? The resources and money that this family has used up would be enough to feed every person in some small countries for years. Better than 95% of the world does not live in a house like this family did, and does not drive cars like they do or eat or dress like they do.Yet we are supposed to find something rewarding about all this. I think not.