So much average

Excellent but underrated film

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The Jesse Stone movies shouldn't work; there's no pace at all in them, but, somehow, they do work. Stone admits to alcoholism but he should really be doing something about his caffeine intake. Stone spends all the day drinking coffee staring into nothingness over water, drinking coffee in his car staring into nothingness, drinking coffee with his psychiatrist while monosyllabically discussing nothing very much. He spends the nights drinking whiskey while staring into nothingness over water, drinking whiskey staring into nothingness inside his house or drinking whiskey while monosyllabically chatting on the phone with his ex-wife. If you took out these moments of nothingness, the films would be about 15 minutes long. Yet, for all that, the films have a charm and a pathos. It is nearly aways about to rain in Stone's New England (but rarely does) to give great skies over the landscapes as well as contributing to the melancholia. A tinkling, melancholic but sweet piano theme plays throughout the films constantly, only ceasing when Stone is in his house (drinking whiskey and staring into nothingness) and he puts tinkling, melancholic but sweet Brahms piano music on his stereo. The only thing more depressed than Stone in the films is his found dog, who's loyal but emotionally distant and often gives Stone the cold shoulder. Stone solves his crimes by staring into nothingness and asking a few desultory questions - usually of Hasty, an ex-banker that tried to kill him but professes his liking of Stone or of Gino Fish a ruthless gangster who tried to kill him but kind of likes Stone. He kind of stumbles into solving the crimes. Despite all this, the Jesse Stone films have something about them and are a cut above your usual made-for-TV films. I for one look forward to them being on TV, despite the fact I can predict what will happen for most of the film. A curiosity well worth the time

This one is extremely disappointing, especially if you have seen other ones of the Jesse Stone series. The dialogue is pretty bad and clearly aimed to dish out as many memorable one-liners as possible. Although Stone still seems to be an alcoholic, that does not affect him at all, he is fully functional. At one point it becomes clear that he has been divorced five years ago, yet his ex still leaves messages on his answering machine ? His relationship to the prosecutor is way too cozy and lacks all tension now. The couple that randomly murders people is really just ridiculous and lacks all credibility. Each and every subplot is way too overdone. Why would high school football players rape a thirteen year old, small and fairly ugly, kid ? And if he KNOWS who the killers are, why are they not put under 24-hour surveillance immediately ? Oh yes, earlier on they film him, with a camera that cannot possibly be more than 20 feet away, and he does not notice ? And yet another lawyer coming on to him ? In summary, nothing makes sense in this film, there is too much stuff moving too fast. Too bad, since other Jesse Stone sequels are really good...

Tom Selleck does a great job playing an alcoholic former LA Detective who is now the sheriff of a small Massachusetts town. Everything else about the movie was stupid. The portrayal of the serial killers was ludicrous. If you are a fan of cheesy TV murder mysteries like "Murder She Wrote", then you may like this. The over the top characterizations/portrayals of the Rape Victim, the rape victim's mother, the rapists, and the rapists parents, were all so bad it was painful to watch. Mimi Rogers was so voraciously sexual (as are all women in Selleck's adopted town) I felt like a voyeur watching the scene. I never read the book, but I hope the characters were more realistic than the TV movie. Clearly, the teleplay writers (or perhaps the novel's author) simply collected all the small town stereotypes in one place and inserted them - "insert stereotype A into Scene 2".No matter how good any of the actors are, they can only do so much with such ridiculous dialog.

My wife and I rented the DVD and were pleasantly surprised by this film. Tom Selleck is awesome as Jesse Stone, a flawed yet brilliant police chief with a great sense of humour. The production quality of the DVD is great-I thought this was a theatrical release. I missed the other two films that have been made since Stone Cold (Night Passage and Death in Paradise) and am hoping they will be rebroadcast or also released on DVD. Jesse Stone is destined to become a classic character as iconic as that other guy, Magnum P.I. Here's hoping there's a TV series in the works, because this has the makings of a great one. Rent it, you won't be disappointed!