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Title: Good movie damaged by bad ending
Review: The performances were great. DeNiro plays the parole officer who gets seduced by the convict's girl friend. Jovovitch stands out as the best performer in this feature. Both Norton and her character use one another to achieve their own selfish ends. Norton as a convict is superbly portrayed. He runs circles around the parole officer and manipulates him constantly.This whole plot plays out very predictably. We get to see DeNiro's character is not dealing with a full deck. What did he think would happen if he had a relationship with the con's girl friend? It's a movie that stands out as a good character study. Perhaps a rental of this would be worth it. However, it's one of those movies you'd buy because you like the actors. Not so much on the logic and the way it unfolds on the screen. Nothing is resolved. We are just as much in the dark about the character's motivation.
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