The movie that was written by Ben Affleck and stars his brother as the main character, Casey Affleck, started off so-so for me.  Right off the bat I noticed that Casey tends to talk like he has marbles in his mouth, and that kind of turned me off to the movie, plus the acting seemed a bit contrived at first.  I wasn’t really sure where this story would go, and had heard from a friend about how the plot got better toward the middle of the movie, and there were some surprises. 

Since I’m a sucker for plots with twists and turns, I figured I should hang in there.  Casey Affleck plays the baby faced guy who’s in his early thirties and happens to be somewhat of a bounty hunter for missing people.  He’s really more of a private investigator.  When he is approached by a little girl’s family who disappeared without a trace, he is hesitant to take on the case since he mostly works to find adults who usually don’t want to be found.

His partner is his girlfriend, and I think that was another part of the plot I had a bit of a hard time with, but I ended up being ok with it.  The story involves several older cops who are of the old world style, and may also be partially corrupt, and the story follows a little girl who is kidnapped from her druggie mother that happens to also not parent her child right.  One example is she was left in a baking car for hours and hours while her mom was out getting high.

You might like this movie, or you might hate it.  Especially the ending, which probably left many movie goers mad.  The first half of the movie contains some fairly incompetent acting, so I’m not sure why Casey Affleck was nominated for an Oscar for this movie.  He’s good, but it’s certainly not an Oscar worthy performance.