What a waste of my time!!!

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This film was so hard to engage in that I almost turned it off. The only reason that I watched it to the very end was to see the performances by the cast. I feel like this is one of those movies that could have been a lot better had it not been directed by someone who did not understand its vision or story. The timeline is confusing to stick to (unless you can reference Nicole Kidman's long or short hair for time reference). The script is horrible at times, some of the scenes are unbearably amateur in storyline. I want to say that I enjoyed this, but it really sucked.

A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered. Even tho the film is at times a bit slow and not as well developed as it could at times, Secret in Their Eyes (2015) benefits directly from a dark and serious perfomance from Julia Roberts who does an incredible job in the lead role, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor are also good in their roles. The film's end tho was kinda fast and not what i was expecting but even with it's flaws the film is still watchable and it's better than most reviewers said. (7.5/10)

With the flashbacks, it takes a while to understand what is going on in this vigilante justice film.The acting is good, but only at the end do we learn of the love interest between the Kidman and male characters. Kidman's character needed more depth. Julia Roberts is good as the investigator whose daughter was murdered. Again, at the end, she reveals a secret most shocking but again most appropriate.Who was that misfit of a guy who everyone spends the entire film chasing after? He even looked like a killer.Roberts is at her best during her hysteria tantrums when she finds out that her daughter was the victim of a rape and subsequently murdered.

In this movie, there were way too many flashback scenes and it was often way too confusing to tell if it was a flashback scene or not. Each time it cut to a new scene, you had to figure out each time if it was from 2002 or 2015. Further complicating the matter was how the actors and actresses had the exact same hair-styles and looked the same ages in the 2002 and the 2015 scenes. If they would've shot the 2002-era scenes first and then had a make-up and hair crew change the hairstyles and make-up enough to make it easier to tell which decade the scenes were from, that would've helped a lot. Better yet, just doing the film in chronological order would've made the move far better and a lot more enjoyable to watch. Using flashbacks when everyone involved was too lazy and unprofessional to make it work knocked the movie down from a solid 7 to a weak 4.