Arlington Road

Well, I just got back from seeing Arlington Road, and so I will now begin the regular feature of critique-ing movies for you faithful visitors. In brief, it was pretty good. Jeff Bridges is a competent actor (read: boring), but the complexity of Tim Robbins' acting isn't fully understood until the third act, when he discards the innocent suburbanite act, and shows us the guts of his character. For a movie that advertises it's plot twists and turns, it's fairly predictable, except for the whammy at the end. Very clever. Sometimes the direction is disjointed and cliched, but it's from a famous music-video director, so what can you do, hey?