Secret in Their Eyes

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Oscar nominee Billy Ray takes on a remake of the 2009 Oscar winning foreign film Secret in Their Eyes. He has a huge cast to back him up including Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Lee Noris, Michael Kelly, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Alfred Molina.
The story revolves around a group of counter terrorist agency right after 9-11. They get a call about a body in a dumpster next to a Mosque that they were investigating. Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Jess( Julia Roberts) went to investigate like it be any other case, except it isn’t, it ends up being Jess's daughter. The murder goes unsolved, and thirteen years later a second crack at it.
To me there was chemistry that worked and some that don’t. The chemistry between Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor is fantastic. The chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor lacked, considering they are supposed to be romantically interested in each other.
The selling point of the movie is going to be what the secret will be. Watching the trailer really makes it seem that there should be a huge secret by the end of it, and by the end as secret after secret is revealed it really doesn’t live up to the trailer.
In the end with solid performances by most of the cast it doesn’t help the fact that story does not have the payoff it needs and very familiar plot points.
GRADE:C-

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