tanty
Tommy Lee Jones performance is superb and the Southern US atmosphere is really genuine but the story is just made overcomplicated and disappointing.
In the Electric Mist
- Thriller
- Drama
- Crime
- Mystery
4/15/2009
117
R
NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THE SINS OF THE PAST
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
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Cast
- Tommy Lee JonesDave Robicheaux
- John GoodmanJulie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
- Peter SarsgaardElrod Sykes
- Mary SteenburgenBootsie Robicheaux
- Kelly MacdonaldKelly Drummond
- Justina MachadoRosie Gomez
- Ned BeattyTwinky LeMoyne
- James GammonBen Hebert
- Pruitt Taylor VinceLou Girard
- Levon HelmGeneral John Bell Hood
- Buddy GuySam 'Hogman' Patin
- Julio Cesar CedilloCholo Manelli
- Bernard HockeMurphy Doucet
- John SaylesMichael Goldman
- Gary GrubbsSheriff
- Walter BreauxBatist
Reviews
brekkil
A woman is found murdered in the swamp somewhere in the south. A brutal murder, quite possibly a serial killer. A policeman is investigating, and while he does that, another body is found, but this one nothing but bones. This guy (a black guy) was killed 40 years ago, and the policeman suddenly remembers that he saw this murder happening when he was a kid. There doesn't seem to be any sort of connection between the murders, except the man investigating both of them.
Tommy Lee Jones plays the old cop who investigates the murders in the swamp. He is a man fighting his own demons, meaning mostly alcohol, but clearly the death of this black guy has also haunted him for 40 years. He wants justice to be served, but is not willing to do whatev...
Wuchak
Tommy Lee Jones as a tough sleuth in the bayous of the Deep South
A no-nonsense detective in the heart of Louisiana (Jones) tries to stay away from alcohol as he investigates the murder of a young prostitute, as well as a murder from the mid-60s of a black man in the swamp. John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen and Ned Beatty appear in secondary roles.
Based on the 1993 book, In the Electric Mist (2009) is a detective drama/thriller with a Southern Gothic milieu. Imagine U.S. Marshals if it were set in the Deep South, like No Mercy, "Cape Fear" or The Generals Daughter.
The details of the book are absent so you have to put the pieces of the puzzle together, but I loved the bayou atmosphere even though some of the ...