Solace (2016)

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Anthony Hopkins plays a psychic who helps the FBI to track down a serial killer. Trouble is he too is a psychic and a more powerful one at that. This movie did remind me of Seven, Manhunter, The Dead Zone, etc but this psychic versus psychic is a cool idea & both are played by A-list actors. It's stylish, often brutal, well acted & has a good musical score. The only minor quibble is that it does push the boundaries of believability towards the end. Looking at other reviews it is a classic case of IMDB exaggeration - to award this 1/10 is simply absurd, but likewise only the best movies deserve 10/10 & this certainly is not one of them. But I enjoyed it , 7/10 from me.

When I first seen this on the shelf at my library, I thought it looks pretty good. When I seen this I thought this is a damn good movie with a good story and really good performances.The film is basically your typical serial killer goes on a rampage and FBI agents must stop him formula, but this film is refreshingly done with great twists and takes interesting turns along the way.The performances from Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jefferey Dean Morgan and Abbie Cornish were very good, everyone brought their A-game in this. Jefferey and Abbie play FBI agents and Anthony is a doctor who is physic who from what I can tell, is a cop, and the FBI uses him from time to time on really difficult cases. On this case, the killer there after is just like Anthony's character, a physic ,and has them follow his bazaar riddles and clues, which is really cool.I know it won't happen but I kinda want to see a sequel to this because the concept is fresh, this film could be a franchise. Originally this was the sequel to Seven that started Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt but was changed to this instead, I think at the time New Line Cinema didn't like it or it never got of the ground, but I'm glad it was rescued and made as this instead. Besides Seven is very hard to franchise if you think about it.The action scenes are good and the story is cool it's one of these edge of your seat kinda flicks, with a great ending that I will not spoil. I give it a 7/10. A good movie that I can't recommend enough to you. See it.

The Hopkins picture on the poster is what made me choose this.It is a good made thriller.I was very surprised to watch thin in a day where marvel movies took over.Great psychological thriller.

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.