Inadvands
Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
Murphy Howard
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Casey Duggan
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
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Poor Jesse is up to his neck in trouble with the Town Council - big surprise - when he and his friend State Homicide Commander Healy (Stephen McHattie) are shot at during an unofficial stakeout on a Boston street. Healy is badly injured. Boston Police Internal Affairs investigates.As long as they're angry with him, Jesse fires the department's biggest ticket writer and also fixes the sign so that drivers aren't fooled into going the wrong speed.Then the woman appears looking for her missing child from several years earlier, and Jesse agrees to look into it. Kathy Baker and Kohl Sudduth appear in this episode as well as William Devane as Jesse's psychiatrist, Dr. Dix. I think these are good movies, some better than others. As I've written a million times I am a big fan of Tom Selleck's but there are more levels to Jesse than he's able to portray. He has great ability, but his talents are in another direction. I can certainly understand that he wants to do something different, though.
SanteeFats
This is the fifth Jesse Stone movie. He is on an apparent stake out with the state's homicide captain in some sleazy Boston suburb. Out of the fog a shadowy image appears and shoots both of them. This person then comes up to give the coupe de grace but Jesse is still conscious and pulls his weapon. He shoots at the perp and seems to hit him. The captain is in the ICU in a coma and Jesse is able to walk around. William Devane reprises his role as an ex-cop and drunk turned shrink. He and Jesse have some interesting confabs about more than just Jesse's problem's. Kathy Baker plays a rusty deputy returned to service while Molly is out pregnant. There is the search for a long time missing, thought dead boy. A letter from Paradise leads the still looking mother to Jesse. Through some luck and good cop work they find that the boy had actually lived in Paradise until he died while skating. The town council is out to get Jesse since he does things his way and not theirs, but they will not come out and fire him. Old Suitcase is freaky now that he is out of his coma from the last movie. He comes out with random thoughts and ideas that are pertinent to what is being discussed at the moment. There is quite a bit more but watch the movie if you like cop detective films. This is pretty good.
noliver35
I love the feel of these (made for TV) movies. And as another person commented, I also like the music and how it adds to the atmosphere. This one had good attention to detail, I thought. At least, based on a couple of things I noticed. At the firing range Suitcase had a Bic four color pen in his breast pocket; when he was taking notes on his observation of the bad guy outside the bar, he used the same (sort of?) pen to write them. There were a few other little details like that - clearly, the people who put this together took good care with the film. And I continue to be impressed with how Tom Selleck portrays Jesse Stone. Tom might be older than Jesse, but he does a fantastic job. I'm sure that Robert B. Parker would have been happy.
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While I do agree with this being the least of the series, I enjoyed the episode. However, my wife (who would leave me for Tom if he asked, I'm not kidding) didn't like it.As an example of our tastes, I loved Clint Eastwoods "Unforgiven" because the distinction between bad and good wasn't clear. My wife did not like "Unforgiven" because the distinction between bad and good wasn't clear.I think the story line was needed or the series would have fallen way to far into a formula driven format. That's why I think it would destroy the series if it was a week to week show. This episode must set up at least one or two more stories.I look forward to them.
