Checked out Mystic River tonight, after an unsucessful attempt to watch it yesterday afternoon. Decent movie, typical type thriller movie. I don't understand though why it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. There was nothing spectaular about this movie, there were about 50 different themes and so many different types of angles and uses of the camera. The only thing note worthy were some of the performances, well actually the only performance that was decent was Marcia Gay Harden. Or maybe I am just biased about her since I love her. This one's a renter folks.