Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)

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One of the wrost movies I have ever seen

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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.

I like the pace of Jesse Stone TV movies. They are too slow for some folks, but the pauses give the discriminating viewer time to guess at what Jesse is turning over in his head. I thoroughly enjoy the banter between him and his psychologist friend and Capt Healey. As a man who survived all the banter that accompanies time in the military, I actually get a kick out of hearing the dialogue.Jesse is rehired as chief after some police are killed in a car bomb. He is caught between not liking one of the dead and wanting justice even if it proves the dead cop was innocent of a crime. There is some touching of old friendships and a few surprises. We get a small hint of something to come but it is hard to actually piece all of what we see together and know how it will play out.I enjoyed it very much, hope you will too.

This series is awesome; a great depiction of flawed characters with the politics of a small town.With extensive background in law enforcement, both my wife and I appreciated and found this to be very accurate, despite the Hollywood influences. Cops, unfortunately, do deal with many of the same problems; alcohol, marriage, and relationship problems. Tom Selleck does a great job with Robert Parker's character. You can feel the loneliness and isolation in Jesse Stone.In addition, the depiction of ugly death scenes is right on; no restraint. This is a great way to spend 90 minutes.

what a stupid dialog! why repeated it all the time? why repeat another stupid sentence of dialog like "i never said so". like the author, robert p. parker and his novels, the whole movie series was following the pace and tone of the novels, slow, pretentious, and gloomy. but one thing i have to point out: the premise of this series has a major flaw: you think that the city council of paradise would be so desperate and short of choice to hire a drunken cop fired by the lapd to be the chief of police? the movie location chose somewhere in the northeast and shot the series in wintry and wet seasons, but this new episode has stupidly arranged a scene of the motel owner/manager watering the lawn in april? what a pretentious and stupid scene. the whole series is nothing but a sponge full of water, soaked to the extreme with slow sound track, moody song, gloomy wet wintry scenes on and on but at the same time, drink after drink, and then with lot of meaningless macro shots of jesse stone's dumb dog. hey, you can't keep using these kinda crap on and on, again and again: 'because i'm the police chief.", "i never said so." or 'what you're looking at (you damn dog)?" and this episode, well, the paradise police chief playing a one man job, holding the fort of the paradise police dept, playing the detective and murder investigation jobs and well, a solo highway patrolman and drinking liquors and coffee all the time. a senior lost his job, still own the house on the beach without worrying the mortgage payment and property tax, got lot of money to spend on his binge drinking, yappi coffee and $180.00 one hour session of brain/mind search. what a stupid and absurd scenario!

The auto inspection stickers were on the driver side of the windshield of the police cars, which is wrong. In MA they are on the passenger side. This also appeared in previous episodes. I expect that all MA residents would have noted this.Next, there was no sound of ejected brass clinking around when Jesse was involved in the gun fight aboard the boat. This is a major error which any gun owner would have noted at once.Hopefully the crew will do a better job in the future on these technical issues.Over all, I did like this episode as I was unable to get ahead of the story line. The several scenes where Jesse sits and thinks would be evident of a great mind culling all evidence and known facts in order to place them in relation to each other. Ultimately, bringing Jesse to the conclusion that I, personally, missed.Again, Joe the Dog deserves an award as Best Actor for his portrayal of Reggie (the dog) and Jesse's anchor. He provided a very believable companion who reacted very well to Jesse's moods.Am looking forward to the next episode.