Stunning!!! I will give you a series of films........Taxi driver, The Searchers, Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy, One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest.......and THE PLEDGE. Spot the odd one out..........there isnt one, each film is a masterpiece.
Sean Penn has surpassed himself with this slow paced, thoughtful study of a man and his mind. Curious, obssessed, angry, dogged, tender, gentle, cool and haggard. Nicholson does the lot!
I wont give much away on this. Nicholson is a retired cop who, on his final day in the force deals with the murder of a young girl. He has a hunch the killer is not the guy they took in and through coincidence, luck, determination and instinct, Jack keeps going until he believes he has the guy in his sights.
I loved the camera work, the haunting music, the fact that Nicholson, who is deemed as the hero in waiting has a variety of weakness and vunerability.
The ending made me fell so angry and pityful of his character, I had to watch it again although strangely, it seemed different!!!
Superb film!!!!