Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Prismark10 Stone Cold made in 2005 was the first film in the Jesse Stone series of films adapted from the novels written by Robert Parker.Confusingly the next film Night Passage served as a prequel of Jess Stone, a high profile police detective with a drinking problem arriving to small town of Paradise in Massachusetts.Tom Selleck is the world weary Stone, a recovering alcoholic with an ex wife almost starting out again in Paradise as the police chief.Paradise is plagued with a random shooter who is getting personal with Chief Stone as his girlfriend is targeted. Jess Stone suspects a smarmy couple renting a house but he needs to prove it.There is also the shocking case of a high school student who is gang raped and threatened by fellow students. When he arrests one of the kids he has to deal with the angry father and their expensive attorney.There is not much mystery in this film. We quickly find out what happened to girl at school and the suspects are quickly identified. As for the random shooter, again Jess Stone realises who the suspects may be so it is case of how they get caught.It is a character piece about Stone himself, a flawed man who is a good cop with principles. The opening film was good, a slow burner but not dull although in real life such high profile shootings in a small town will have the FBI and mass media crawling all over the place.

mfrost71w The Jesse Stone movies shouldn't work; there's no pace at all in them, but, somehow, they do work. Stone admits to alcoholism but he should really be doing something about his caffeine intake. Stone spends all the day drinking coffee staring into nothingness over water, drinking coffee in his car staring into nothingness, drinking coffee with his psychiatrist while monosyllabically discussing nothing very much. He spends the nights drinking whiskey while staring into nothingness over water, drinking whiskey staring into nothingness inside his house or drinking whiskey while monosyllabically chatting on the phone with his ex-wife. If you took out these moments of nothingness, the films would be about 15 minutes long. Yet, for all that, the films have a charm and a pathos. It is nearly aways about to rain in Stone's New England (but rarely does) to give great skies over the landscapes as well as contributing to the melancholia. A tinkling, melancholic but sweet piano theme plays throughout the films constantly, only ceasing when Stone is in his house (drinking whiskey and staring into nothingness) and he puts tinkling, melancholic but sweet Brahms piano music on his stereo. The only thing more depressed than Stone in the films is his found dog, who's loyal but emotionally distant and often gives Stone the cold shoulder. Stone solves his crimes by staring into nothingness and asking a few desultory questions - usually of Hasty, an ex-banker that tried to kill him but professes his liking of Stone or of Gino Fish a ruthless gangster who tried to kill him but kind of likes Stone. He kind of stumbles into solving the crimes. Despite all this, the Jesse Stone films have something about them and are a cut above your usual made-for-TV films. I for one look forward to them being on TV, despite the fact I can predict what will happen for most of the film. A curiosity well worth the time

Nordicnorn Tom Selleck does a great job playing an alcoholic former LA Detective who is now the sheriff of a small Massachusetts town. Everything else about the movie was stupid. The portrayal of the serial killers was ludicrous. If you are a fan of cheesy TV murder mysteries like "Murder She Wrote", then you may like this. The over the top characterizations/portrayals of the Rape Victim, the rape victim's mother, the rapists, and the rapists parents, were all so bad it was painful to watch. Mimi Rogers was so voraciously sexual (as are all women in Selleck's adopted town) I felt like a voyeur watching the scene. I never read the book, but I hope the characters were more realistic than the TV movie. Clearly, the teleplay writers (or perhaps the novel's author) simply collected all the small town stereotypes in one place and inserted them - "insert stereotype A into Scene 2".No matter how good any of the actors are, they can only do so much with such ridiculous dialog.

francoismequer Well, I was expecting a pretty usual and in some way disappointing TV movie. I didn't know the book (the fourth one from the series I believe). It was a very nice surprise since the movie is really good, the characters are well built and the whole place kind of grows on you as you get to know the town. The plot doesn't bring anything new but the acting and the interaction between the characters are very interesting... It brings a lot of tension as Stone knows from the beginning who the killer(s) is. He plays along with the killer no matter how hard it is on him. The dialogues are just perfect: dark, sarcastic and also funny at the same time. Tom Selleck gives a great performance as a lost and tortured police chief... I just received the next DVD: "Jesse Stone: night passage" which is a prequel to "Stone cold" since it must be an adaptation of the first book. We learn How Jesse Stone arrived in the town.