Grey Lady

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The lead, Eric Dane, walks around with a constipated look. He's seems as confused as we are watching him. The initial set-up is a good start. The movie then abruptly shifts from Boston(?) to Nantucket, and we are dumped into the middle of a different movie. It's as if some essential scenes or dialogue were cut from the movie, leaving the viewer to try to make sense of it all. There's also two scenes that hint at the supernatural that amounts to exactly nothing AFAIK. Awful...

There is a big confusion in this film about the death of the sister of Doyle....it is pretty confusing, who was that sister? the only one killed was his partner as far as I know.... Was his partner his sister too? All the movie is pretty confusing....at one moment I thought it was all about vampires..... The only thing I enjoyed about the movie was the role of Eric Dane, hope to see him in a better movie.

I didn't know if this was a crime-thriller, supernatural or drama. It was mish-mash of it all. The musical score was terrible in almost every scene. Writing and directing there are no words. John Shea is definitely not a director or writer I'd ever watch again. Then he had to appear in it as well smh Dane needs to stick to TV or needs a better script. I wonder if this caused this divorce between him and Gayheart

The lead actors are not TERRIBLE, I'll say that. But everything else- supporting cast, story, dialogue- is godawful. The editing is the worst part- it just jumps around with no rhyme or reason, as if entire chunks have been cut out randomly. It actually kept reminding me of "The Room", lol. And the love interest looking exactly like his dead girlfriend was just SO unnecessary and creepy.

James (Eric Dane) dreams about his family playing on the beach of Nantucket in slow motion. He is known a cop in Boston. When is partner is murdered, James thinks it is connected to a family murder. He goes back to Nantucket in search of answers and sets off the fireworks as the body count continues. We get to know killer about half way through the film and the basic motive. We get more information in a flashback and later a twist is told to us in the church, not a big deal for us. Eric Dane wasn't charismatic in any way shape or form. In fact they joke about him smiling at the end. It is not that they didn't create characters, but the interesting ones keep getting killed off, sort of like "Walking Dead" but without zombies. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity

The premise interested me. I really enjoy a good murder mystery. This was just muddled. The acting/script really weren't that great and just made it all incredibly cheesy. Spent half of the time wondering what was happening and hoping for a pay off that was at least worth it. It wasn't.

By far the worst movie I've seen in years. It's so shockingly bad, it's almost funny.

An American drama; A story about a Boston homicide detective who searches for clues about a serial killer that murdered both his sister and his partner which leads him to Nantucket, an island where he uncovers secrets about his family's past. The main problem with the film is it doesn't spend enough time on character development before launching into overwrought plotting. The pacing fails because of a sketchy main character. Although it is absorbing as a whodunnit, with such crude methods of viciousness and so many plot turns it felt forced and hard to engage with. It boasts a lovely setting and all the technical elements are tick-boxed for a modern drama.

A Boston Detective Doyle (Eric Dane) and his partner-wife Maggie (Rebecca Gayheart) respond to a break-in at an art gallery and Doyle figures out this is an ambush. Both are subdued and Maggie is shot and killed with Doyle's gun and Doyle is shot with Maggie's gun. Before dying Maggie whispers clues to Doyle: Crown and Rose. Doyle is suspended and he goes to Nantucket to a restaurant called the Crown and Rose. Doyle grew up in Nantucket and hopes that some family members there will help him discover the reason for the killing. At this point he is not aware that he is the real target. This is very slow going and much information the audience needs is hard to come by. I gave up some things above that would take forever before the Director lets them known. You are welcome. But for you to enjoy this story you needed to know some things. Enter Eli Morrison (Carolyn Stotesbery) and Perry Morrison (Chris Meyer) two psychopaths and we are not sure what their role is in here. There are many things we are not privy to and we find ourselves learning about characters who just decide to show up. What do they know? Doyle needs to find out. The acting all around is good even though much isn't revealed by this cast. Ha! The real mystery in here is why the audience is kept from good information and they (we) sometimes become so confused we almost shut this down. Yes, yes, all information will be revealed at the end. Yeaaaaah! This would have been a better cat and mouse mystery if Doyle knew or suspected who the killers were, but not that he would know he was the ultimate target. Well, that is until the very end. There is a twist that even God didn't see coming. Honest. Notables: Natalie Zea as Melissa, the love interest for Doyle and she has looks that closely resemble Maggie, his dead wife; Amy Madigan as Lola and Doyle's aunt and is the real key to everything; Adrian Lester as Detective Johnson who helps Doyle and also is there to keep an eye on him; and John Shea as police Chief Maguire who also wrote this somewhat confusing story. FYI: Eric Dane was a regular on TV show Grey's Anatomy and he is currently in The Last Ship. Who is the Grey Lady? Why Nantucket itself, which we see in fogs, dreary, and lifeless ways, much like this story. (5/10) Violence; Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes, but not much.