blanche-2
The music in "Sea Change" from 2007 I believe is Brahms piano music, and it's lovely and sets the mood beautifully. As with the last Jesse Stone film I saw, the mood is depression.I actually am seeing these out of order -- in the other one I saw, Jesse was off the police force. Here he is the Police Chief and talking to his ex-wife on the phone all the time. Afraid of going back to his alcoholic ways, he consults a psychiatrist (William Devane).He also dives into two cases: an old bank robbery case where a teller was killed, and an alleged rape. The town council isn't crazy about that one because of the tourist trade.I thought the script was very good, as were the production values. Unlike many on this board, I am not sold on Tom Selleck in this role. Yes, he looks weathered. This is a complicated, multilayered role and I don't see the layers in Selleck. I see him being very serious and looking miserable.Also, it plays against the qualities that made him a star, a special presence, charm for days, and a flair for comedy. And let's not forget the dimpled smile. Here he's morose. Frankly, it makes the character kind of boring even though he's obviously very smart.The other major problem for me in this episode was Sean Young, whom I never could stand.The rest of the cast is very good and top-notch: Kathy Baker, Stephen McHattie, William Devane, and Kohl Sudduth.I just wish these movies had a little more spark.
SanteeFats
Man I really like Tom Selleck as an actor. He does his usual excellent job in this film playing the chief of a small town who is willing to ignore the book. This is the fourth movie in the Jesse Stone series and is as well done as the previous ones. Jesse is basically bored with writing traffic violations and takes up a cold case file. A bank robbery with a murder/guard shooting. He ends up finding the real results of the case but let's it slide when it turns out that the culprit's were two sisters and the surviving one is using the money to care for her stroke disabled mother plus she is almost broke. Now Suitcase (who was shot in the last movie) comes out of his comma and seems to have developed strange prescience that are rather eerie but insightful. There is also a reported rape case that isn't. She just got caught by Daddy when she was coming in late at night and made up the story to cover her ass. Officer De'Angelo is a real tool, he rats out Stone to the city council trying to get Jesse fired so he can get the chief's job. All in all another good movie.
Bjorn Lynne
I approached this film with an open mind and was looking forward to it. As the film progressed and passed the one-hour mark, I honestly have to say that this is one of the most boring, uninteresting and slow moving films I've ever seen. For the last 20 minutes I was just praying for it to end.Tom Selleck is bland and completely uninteresting, and his character speaks entirely in "clever quips", ALL the time, which really grinds after a while. Although Selleck is bad, he still delivers the best performance in this film, because the other actors are so incredibly bad -- perhaps with the exception of Nigel Bennet who plays Harrison Pendelton who's good, but unfortunately only on screen for about a minute throughout the whole film.The story is not exactly predictable, but written to a safe recipe of "crime mysteries" which stirs up no real interest - in me, anyway. Overall I found this an exceptionally drab experience and I wish I had spent the hour and a half doing something else.
whpratt1
Tom Sellewck, (Chief Jesse Stone) assumes the role as Police Chief in a small local town in Mass. and finds himself getting bored with talking to his ex-wife and drinking a entire bottle of scotch during the evening while his companion, the dog keeps him company and watches every move Jesse makes. Jesse gets himself involved with a Cold Case of a woman who was killed during a robbery in 1992 and finds out there was a great deal of money involved with this robbery and some big time mob bosses were laundering money. While this investigation is going on, Jesse solves a rape case that happened to a young girl on a schooner in the harbor. There are many twists and turns to this film and it will keep you guessing right to the very end of the film. Great entertaining film with a cast of great actors.
AD
