Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

rightwingisevil what a stupid dialog! why repeated it all the time? why repeat another stupid sentence of dialog like "i never said so". like the author, robert p. parker and his novels, the whole movie series was following the pace and tone of the novels, slow, pretentious, and gloomy. but one thing i have to point out: the premise of this series has a major flaw: you think that the city council of paradise would be so desperate and short of choice to hire a drunken cop fired by the lapd to be the chief of police? the movie location chose somewhere in the northeast and shot the series in wintry and wet seasons, but this new episode has stupidly arranged a scene of the motel owner/manager watering the lawn in april? what a pretentious and stupid scene. the whole series is nothing but a sponge full of water, soaked to the extreme with slow sound track, moody song, gloomy wet wintry scenes on and on but at the same time, drink after drink, and then with lot of meaningless macro shots of jesse stone's dumb dog. hey, you can't keep using these kinda crap on and on, again and again: 'because i'm the police chief.", "i never said so." or 'what you're looking at (you damn dog)?" and this episode, well, the paradise police chief playing a one man job, holding the fort of the paradise police dept, playing the detective and murder investigation jobs and well, a solo highway patrolman and drinking liquors and coffee all the time. a senior lost his job, still own the house on the beach without worrying the mortgage payment and property tax, got lot of money to spend on his binge drinking, yappi coffee and $180.00 one hour session of brain/mind search. what a stupid and absurd scenario!

edwagreen The problem with the Jesse Stone series in general is that they try to incorporate the various shows in relationship to his personal life. In other words, we get side tracked here and that's not very good.This episode was another perfect example here. More should have been stated about the grieving father-in-law. Was the son-in-law an innocent victim when Butler's car was fire-bombed? Who was Arthur? Was he just a hit-man? Saul Rubinek's character of Hasty was hastily put together. All of a sudden, he was a big deal in this.Rose (Kathy Bates) briefly appears. She always seems so depressed here. One wonders if she is just under contract to fulfill her role as Rose.The show was slow-moving and basically uneventful considering that a car bombing killing two police officers should have generated much more interest.

Doug Ripberger The latest Jesse Stone installment, Benefit of the Doubt, is yet another reminder that Jesse is a flawed character. Tom Selleck does such a great job with this character you find yourself justifying these flaws and rooting for him to overcome and serve justice at the same time. Robert B. Parker's vision for Jesse to continue to be flawed has remained intact even after the scripts wandered away from Parker's story line. The supporting cast, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, William Sadler, Saul Rubinek, and William Devane all return to Paradise to as well. Great acting by Selleck, good writing, and the talented supporting cast preserve Parker's vision for Jesse Stone and hopefully give it life for yet another CBS movie.

vchimpanzee Paradise Police Chief "Skipper" Butler and Officer D'Angelo are investigating a fire at "The Point". But when they get there, it appears to be a false alarm.Or is it?Two people are dead, and be warned--their bodies look like something out of a horror movie.The state arson investigators won't tell the town council anything. Town council members Hanson and Hasty show up at Stone's remote house--his phone is disconnected--to offer him his job back. Stone and the state investigator Healy are friends, so maybe he will have better luck. Healy tells Stone what he needs to know and advises him to leave the investigating to the state cops. Since when has that ever stopped Stone? His next two actions are illegal and provide two of the film's best comic moments, the other being Hasty's bow-tie.Stone suspects the murders were the result of Butler being corrupt (Wait: why will Butler let Stone take over his job, much less get away with investigating him? There's a very good reason). But he faces a number of obstacles. Molly quit. Rose quit and took her kids to her mother's in Toledo. Suitcase is working on his father's boat where he claims to be happy, but he's not convincing. Stone has no cell reception at his house. How will this man get anything done? Believe me, he will.Stone hasn't talked to his ex-wife Jen since he lost his job, and he's drinking again; his dog seems to disapprove. He continues to visit Dr. Dix, and he is dating Thelma, who works at Hasty's car dealership and sings standards in a club. Stone also goes out with the pretty but tough Amanda, Gino Fish's secretary, but just for information.A third person dies, and while it looks like suicide, Stone doesn't believe it.The mystery has just enough twists, and the conclusion is exciting.This is a movie that can be watched by those new to Jesse Stone. Unlike some of the others, this is a straight mystery which doesn't deviate into long philosophical scenes that some might find boring. And Stone's character history is explained for those who might not know it, but this is not really necessary for a newcomer to the series. Tom Selleck does his usual good job--just remember, this is NOT "Blue Bloods" (which I've never seen, but commercials tell me enough). Stone is flawed in many ways but basically decent.The other leading actors also do a good job. I wish Kathy Baker had had a bigger role, but for whatever reason she didn't have a lot of lines. Suitcase was also missed.It's worth seeing, even more so than some of the recent entries in the series.