Stone
There was a time not so extended ago when the combination of Ed Norton and Robert De Niro, two of the furthermost actors of our time, would have been greeted with massive enthusiasm. And yet the picture Stone, which was free this fall too little fanfare, barely made a bug. With the movie now out on DVD and Blue-Ray Print.
Stone is not a terrible movie. It's not even a bad film. But it's a monotonous movie that doesn't bring anything of real price. It's straight away forgettable and time after time underperforms from start to finish.
In Stone, Robert De Niro plays Jack Mabry, a parole officer who is assigned the container of convicted arsonist Gerald "Stone" Creeson. With Stone's parole inquiry imminent, the convict, in an attempt to persuade Mabry to a positive appraisal, has his wife seduce Jack. The decisions the three build have profound cost on their lives.
The picture had the potential to be enormous. Ed Norton has been at his most excellent when he's behind bars and De Niro - well, we all know what he's competent of. The movie is heading for by John Curran, who did the astonishingly good The Painted Veil and Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan.
And so far Stone is flat. Norton's performance seems forced, De Niro's indifferent. Only Jovovich seems to fully hold her role, which makes sense since she's in a movie with Ed Norton and Robert De Niro. Maybe she should sue.Roger Ebert is quote on the Blu-Ray cover, calling the film as psychological duel. Unluckily, the duel isn't much to fob watch. The movie goes off the deep end in the concluding act and features one of the least climactic climaxes in recent reminiscence. Is it hypothetical to be a thriller, or a drama? Not even the filmmakers know





