This movie could be a master class and acting as far as Anthony Hopkins goes - and most of the other actors also great. Unfortunately the main female character character was woefully miscast and obviously written by man. If I see one more female detective dressed like Olivia Benson on SVU I'm going to scream just for lack of creativity. Do all female detectives wear low-cut tank tops with big belts and a tight blazer? I just could not believe this character and it ruined the movie for me. I did continue to watch it though because Anthony Hopkins was just so good. But the writing was worse than general TV crime procedurals. Just so many tropes and mysoginistic lines and visuals. Ugh. Really too bad - was just on the edge of being great - if they could've just had one rewrite from a female writer, and someone down to earth like Gina Rodriguez in the main female role to make it more believable, It could've put it over the edge.

Anthony Hopkins is great as always. I feel like there is a lack of depth. The female lead is either a terrible actress or her part was written and directed horribly. I am not sure which. There is a lack of fluidity between the characters.The premise of the story is great. I feel it was written or directed poorly.

Solace: Directed by Afonso Poyart. Written by Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin.Solace is one of those relatively high concept serial killer thriller that were pretty popular for a while in the 90s. Anthony Hopkins plays a psychic doctor who is helping a detective friend of his attempt to solve a case where the killer is almost perfect in his ways. This killer is specifically targeting people who have either terminal illnesses or severe suicidal tendencies. This had a decent enough hook to at least want to know where this is going. This is painfully by the book though. It hits all the cliche marks right down the line. Sometimes this is not something that will kill a movie. But the movie must have style to supplement or fascinating characters. This does not, this has the type of people you think they are with the shadowy tragic backstories you know they have from the very start. Both Anthony Hopkins and Jeffrey Dean Morgan play their parts well. They are believable as long time colleagues and friends. Anthony Hopkins is always watchable. His performance elevates the portions that he is in but there is only so much he can do. The biggest issue this movie has other than the nonsense psychic tete a tete going on between Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell is the camerawork and the atrocious editing. There are cuts everywhere, some of which were disorienting. It made things hard to follow and it was generally incredibly irritating. It ruined the tension anytime it tries to bring into the action or meat of the story. This is a miss for sure. It had potential to take the premise in wild and crazy directions. To have fun with it. It does not. Instead it labors in dull meandering threads with no idea how to get from one point to another. It attempts to amp up tension with extremely cryptic imagery and inane editing. I would say to skip this one. I give it a D.

According to trivia notes, this was pencilled in as a potential sequel to Se7en. Thankfully that was overruled, but if the same director and script editors had been on hand as with Se7en, then we might have got an excellent film.It's a psychic cop redrafted back into the police to capture a psychic villain. That's it really.Anthony Hopkins leads a cast who are not in the same league as himself, and it clearly shows. Despite that, the script doesn't often help, and the director is clearly out of his depth with this one. So much could have been done.What should be a taut storyline, really isn't. The premise of psychic cops and villain, doesn't ever convince or leave on edge, and there seems to have been soft porn takes added in as it would be the only talking point for some, and kind of devalued the film. It never added to anything.It's not by any means the poorest movie you'll see of late, but it's one that one will best be left for late night satellite film TV stations as a filler. Nothing more. Disappointing.