An interesting, stylish, well done, (even if predictable) detective murder mystery for the first hour 15 minutes. Then the typical, ridiculous, over the top, outlandish, Hollywood ending kicks in and ruins the whole package. Never quite sure if it's the lack of talent on the part of the writers or just what the Hollywood formula dictates because they think the audience needs some big so called `suspenseful climax' to be satisfied. I expected much better from Eastwood at this point in his career. A low point in films under his direction.