In an attempt to find out the killer of his partner, James, a young intelligent and courageous homicide detective in Boston, who goes to a strange island, following the constructions of his partner before her death, the thing that risks his life and challenges him.
Aims for the gravity of such other Bay State-set mystery-thrillers as "Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone," but barely scratches the surface of those far more elevated films.
Shea assembles many of the requisite elements of a contemporary crime drama, but orchestrates them so chaotically that audiences may be put off by the film's unwelcome onslaught of stale genre techniques.
