Reservation Road
Reservation Road is the story of a man who’s son is killed by a driver while filling up the car with gas. The accident is a hit and run and the father spends the rest of the movie trying to track down who the person was who killed his son while nearly loosing his marriage and almost getting arrested.
He finally tracks down the man, who we have known throughout and by “coincidence” it happens to be his private detective that he has hired to track down the murderer. Eventually, the father discovers this fact and goes to the man’s house to kill him. However, after brining him to a nearby lake in his trunk, he is unable to kill the man who at this point is near the breaking point having filmed a good bye video to his son and almost having turned himself into the police a couple of times.
This movie is watchable enough, but never really gets me going. Joaquin Phoenix isn’t very good in the role and doesn’t seem to get into the role enough to make it believable. Jennifer Connelly is passable as his wife, but isn’t given enough to do here. Mark Ruffalo again isn’t great here, but his problems seem to be even more based in the script problems.
This movie has been made many times before and I was surprised that this cast wasn’t able to give a better go at it than they were. However, as stated earlier, the script didn’t help as the characters seemed to say one thing, but do another and the true feelings and emotions of the tragic event never seemed to set in and affect their actions.
I can’t really suggest anyone to see this film, but it wasn’t terrible, just underwhelming. I give Reservation Road a 6.
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