Best movie of this year hands down!

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I found the acting to be very impressive. Multiple times I was blown away by the multiple amazing performances. I rate his movie low because it was such a poor ending and story. I thoroughly enjoy thoughtful, slow, and suspense movies. Not this one though.I couldn't help but think Jack himself was the killer at times or what. The ending made no sense I had to read other reviews just to figure out what the F happened.

A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child. The Pledge is a powerful, slow and quite terrific drama that benefits from excellent work from Jack Nicholson in the main role but really good work from Sean Penn behind the camera. This film is truly a crime, drama and a damn good one plus the rest of the cast was also excellent especially Benicio Del Toro that although his role is small it's truly just magnificent. The movie as i said it's slow so you need to have patience threw out and believe me it does not disappoint with such a duo. (A+)

Now retired police detective Jerry Black lives completely within the law.In splendid character he very successfully uncovers the illegal acts of a deeply dark child killer. The glory of that career finale credit goes to him.However, the story of the catch is completely lost to him and he is discredited and stripped of having a good side!What makes a town a town, or a man a man? It is a chief person or object that makes each of them. They are no longer when they lose that which is exceptional.

A little girl is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. The police fumble and prevaricate (why must it always be so?), closing the case on the basis of a confession extracted from a junkie - who conveniently shoots himself immediately thereafter - which has chasms larger than the Grand Canyon. It's left to Jerry Black, retired police detective, to have conscience qualms, meet the girl's shattered parents, and, on his soul's salvation, pledge (ergo, the film's title) to bring her killer to heel. He proceeds, on his investigation and to his department's obvious discomfiture, via the well trodden route of investigating similar crimes in the area around, in the past, etc etc.Thus far, it's run-of-the-mill - at least so far as the plot goes - and reasonably predictable. However, once Black (unforgettably brought to life by Jack Nicholson) gets set on the right track, and finds all his hunches, and inferences, to be justified, one by one, the script runs wildly off track.Now that, ordinarily, would be a criticism, rather than a compliment. However, in the case of "The Pledge", director Sean Penn - who has distinguished himself as much in the field of direction as in that of performing - carries us with the completely random flow of the events that unfold, each more unpredictable than the last. Till it all ends in a climax which, I am willing to wager, no one, absolutely no one who has been watching the lunatic turns the plot takes, could have predicted.Whether the end of the film is fulfilling, or not, is debatable. I don't really care. I only know that this is a film which I would unhesitatingly advise anyone, and everyone, who wants to know what imaginative filmmaking is all about, to see. It stands luminously aloft as an example of how, even while working within staid formulaic parentheses, something genuinely and gratifyingly creative can be crafted. By one who has the gumption to do so, and is willing to take the risks, however. Like Penn.