Title: All Atmosphere, No Plot
Review: I kept waiting for this picture to get moving, but it never did. There is a lot of atmosphere and a lot of meaningful brooding, but nothing ever actually happens. As a result, the pacing of this film is painfully slow. We don't get anything like a story until nearly the very end, when Stone stumbles across the money-laundering scheme. Of course, part of the reason everything is so slow is that the filmmakers jettisoned the biggest part of Robert B. Parker's plotline. The money laundering is strictly secondary in the book. It's as if they did "Mutiny on the Bounty" without the mutiny. On the plus side, Selleck is excellent, and so is the rest of the cast, but they are torpedoed by the molasses-in-January pace and excess atmospherics. It's hard to believe the same director made the other two Jesse Stone pictures. Those two are excellent; "Night Passage" is not.
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