It was disjointed

Selleck's cowriter for the films—Michael Brandman—is the new author of the Jesse Stone novel series.

Yes, I am sad to say, I fully agree with mick987g's analysis.

It also was much too much like the actual Robert Parker movie (Can't remember the title) that was about a young girl ("Billie") who got caught up in drugs and prostitution. A wholly different theme would have been far more welcome.

It also didn't help that while Mr. Selleck may be fully familiar with "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "Bridge on the River Kwaii," some of us who never watched those movies don't get the reference when Jesse is watching certain scenes from them...

He also, as the writer, needs to be more familiarized with variations in the tone of the movie so that there are different moods evoked from wry humor to depression. The mood of this movie was fully and wholly depressed and depressing!

I think where some wry humor could have come in was with the new sheriff and his father-in-law who in earlier episodes was laying hunt for Jesse's job for his son-in-law.

EVERYTHING was depressive in this movie.
And my husband and I had to watch the movie twice to figure out the plotline.

Something that we both wondered at in the cast list: how did Gloria Reuben rank such a high position when she really had very little to do in the movie. She must have a great agent!

Flanagan

It was disjointed because of poor writing and direction.

Its that man again!!

I haven't read the books. But I have been following this movie series in sequence. This one didn't come alive for me until the last half-hour. Too much left over from 'No Remorse' in the first hour. Great photography and music as usual. But the dialogue in this one doesn't have the same zing as in the others.

I knew we were off to a shaky start when they introduced the victim as someone who regarded Jesse as her "best friend" yet in 6 movies we'd never even heard of her. It's hard to care when there's been no previous background to the character.