SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Ed-Shullivan Well I finally got around to watching Under Suspicion and I must say that the films' cat and mouse chase that was going on throughout the entire film actually did hold my attention.Gene Hackman plays a very wealthy tax attorney named Henry Hearst who is gainfully employed as a partner in his law firm named after him and he is living in Puerto Rico, married to a very young and attractive wife named Chantal played by Monica Bellucci. When two young girls bodies are discovered raped and murdered Henry Hearst becomes Captain Victor Benezet's prime suspect. The Captain is played by the venerable 2005 Oscar winner actor Morgan Freeman and he sets his sights on his prime suspect Henry Hearst with his equally ambitious Detective Felix Owens played by Thomas Jane who would like nothing better than to beat the crap out of this assumed pedophile rich tax lawyer Henry Hearst.Throughout the film which is a 110 minute on screen interrogation Captain Victor Benezet and Detective Felix Owens take turns interrogating the wealthy tax lawyer Henry Hearst divulging all of his deepest darkest secrets and fetishes throughout the film. Meanwhile Mrs. Hearst is behind the two way mirror during some of her husbands interrogation and confession which obviously is meant to embarrass this married wealthy couple in an effort to draw out of them who is responsible for murdering these two teenage girls.Ahhhhh, but just like all of us who crave that beautiful looking dessert or spicy pizza, and we gobble it up, once we have eaten it all, we are left empty and we realize too late that those were wasted calories and maybe we are left with nothing more than just some common heartburn and a reason for feeling we were fooled into eating that dessert, or that pizza that seemed to look so good.Such is the wasted time we have spent on watching Morgan Freeman for 110 minutes interrogate Gene Hackman only to realize that the end does not in this case justify the means. The ending was and is as cheap a dessert, or that pizza we were guilty of consuming, and we always seem to invariably ask ourselves "why did I do that?" If you read my review first maybe I can save you some wasted calories and about 2 hours of your time as the films end is just so disappointing that I asked myself "really now?" "The writers and director could only come up with this crap of an ending?"Well just like a cheap dessert or a spicy pizza that also will eventually turn in to nothing more and nothing less than a good crap so was Under Suspicion. I give it a 4 out of 10 rating and I suggest you stay away from this over rated film.

Alias13 This was a decent movie but i can understand why some people didn't like the ending as it seemed rushed and could have been better. However, this movie is interesting in the way it depicts the demons of the average man. A successful old man who is married to a woman he clearly doesn't deserve and thinks he is entitled to the world. She knows he is a pedophile and therefore doesn't want him to touch her so they have an estranged marriage, while he goes about looking for prostitutes which are the only women who won't reveal his abusive nature and that he actually likes little girls. He thinks it's OK because they are prostitutes and so he can pretend that they are not real girls. When becoming a suspect of such gruesome murders and rapes of little girls he is clearly sickened by it at first, but as we dig deeper his real thoughts come out and we discover that this rich, intelligent, subtle man could easily be the monster that he is being accused of being. The idea of raping and murdering children is not so far-fetched when we know what he has been doing, and we become aware of the fine line between going to prostitutes, where a man can relieve his gruesome nature and get away with it, and actually killing and raping. The only problem is the ending when his wife actually seemed to have felt remorse because she thought he was guilty. Makes no sense after his atrocious behaviour, cheating and attraction to 13 year old girls, she should have run the other way. Overall it was a nice film worth the time, good acting (apart for Thomas Jane).

Galina Under Suspicion (2000) is a re-make of a French film Garde à vue (1981) directed by Claude Miller and starring Romy Schneider, Michel Serrault, Lino Ventura and Guy Marchand. It was based on the British novel Brainwash, by John Wainwright. I did not see the French film simply because I can't find it but I've seen Under Suspicion more than once and enjoy it every time even though I know how it ends.As a thriller/mystery/crime investigation, Under Suspicion (2000) teases a viewer and more likely would leave a fan of the pure genre disappointed but as a psychological character study which uses the mystery and serial murders investigation as a device to explore the darkest places of human desires and relationships, it is very good. Besides, watching for almost two hours the duel of wills, intellects, and despairs between noble as always Morgan Freeman and exceptional Gene Hackman is a treat. The director's approach to narrative that allows the viewer to be placed along with Victor (Freeman) inside the flashbacks of Hackman's character, Hector, is interesting, unusual, and fresh, and adds to an uneasy and dark atmosphere of the forbidden and deeply hidden desires and fantasies. As great as they both are, for many years after I saw the film for the first time, it was the striking beauty of then relatively little known to the American viewers, Italian Monica Belucci that I remembered vividly. The film director, Stephen Hopkins wanted to cast Monica Bellucci after watching Malèna (2000) while on an overseas flight. I am glad he did. She did not get lost next to her celebrated partners in the film. I also think that moving the action to San Juan, Puerto Rico during the San Sebastian Street Festival that is celebrated every third week in January was a good idea. The carnival atmosphere of music, vibrant colors, and grotesque masks strikes the dramatic contrast with the harrowing devastating experience the main characters of the movie go through and the place in life they find themselves after the investigation is over. Will they ever forget?

read_the_silence My opinion about the story: 1. Freeman is just a simple detective, who has nothing left in his life but his job, so he puts everything into finding the killer. He has real reasons to suspect Hackman. Hackman finds the second victim, and normally he gives a statement, statement that the police HAS to check of course. Many thing do not add up, and the real suspicion starts when the car of Hackman had been trace to the place where/when first victim was killed. Fair enough I would say! Even if for Freeman is a very sensitive case, considering that Hackman was not only an attorney, but also a important figure in the island society, still Freeman is keen to find the truth, no matter who the killer is. 2. Hackman is NOT a paedophile! He is a normal guy, that felt deeply in love with this very young woman. Mind that they got together when she was in college, as he paid for her education. She was not 11 or 14 in college, was she? He loves enormously his wife, but the SICK person, in fact the only sick person in the story, is Chantal. She is extremely jealous, possessive, to the point of accusing him of having something for her sister daughter. He is just a simple 57 old guy, who never had his own kids, and of course he would feel tenure for the kids of others. Chantal suffers, besides of her unreasonable jealousy, she also suffers of a high level of selfishness. She would not have her own kids, just for a simple fact. She would lose Hackman attention and she would feel jealousy towards her own children. That i would say is sickness. 3.Hackman confess to 2 crimes he did not do for a simple reason. Years after years he tried to fight back all sort of accusations,including him liking little girls, accusations coming from the woman he loves profusely. Every second of his life he hopes that his wife, that he so much loves, will come around, realising that those accusations and jealousy are totally crazy... and then he ends up in the middle of this murder investigation. He is tired, he can't do it anymore, so he gave up! He gave up defending himself from his wife, not the police. In fact by his confection he is sending himself free from Chantal. Admitting all her accusation meant losing her, which was what he strongly fought against. 4. In the end Chantal has a moment of clarity, when her mind is cured again. She realised what she had done and she thinks of killing herself. Of course she is too selfish, self observed to go ahead with the jumping. But Hackman is free! Free of her! When she tried to approach him, considering that all he wished for and hoped for was for her to come back to him, he rejects her! HE IS FREE! Freeman realised that too! This is why maybe the name of the detective is FREEMAN... as the detective was the man who helped Hackman to become free again!!!! 5. Regarding Chantal sickness, well the explanation is simple. She knew Hackman since she was 11 years old, as he was her father friend! She lost her father when she was 14 years old, and Hackman took care of her, paid for her education... well, he became her father. Until the moment they became also lovers, the relationship should be clear.. and, this is explaining why she would feel jealousy towards little girls! She was not worried that Hackman will find a sexual attraction for a little girl at that particular moment! She was concern that if a little girl will fulfil Hackmam parental need, and will end up growing and becoming also a beautiful woman, then she has been replaced! Hackman was seen by Chantal both as father and as lover. And her only competition could only develop in a similar bound as hers with Hackman. First innocent parental love, which will grow into sexual attraction as the little girl will grow into a woman. Of course Chantal was a very confused woman, who needed professional help!