On the night he retires as a Reno, Nevada detective, Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the Police arrested the right man. He discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their ages. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, g... (Full plot summary below)
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On the night he retires as a Reno, Nevada detective, Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the Police arrested the right man. He discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their ages. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself "the wizard", all clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blonde daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove to be fatal?
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| The Film YapNick RogersSean Penn's agonizing, angst-ridden "The Pledge" feels like a mystery less about murder and more about the inexplicable dangers of impulse and guilt. It's also a waning opportunity to see Jack Nicholson as anything besides a silver-haired hornball. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesNicholson rules over The Pledge with a shaky hand, and that's the source of his power here. |
| The Moving Picture ShowJoe Leydon[Penn] sustains a mesmerizing intensity while relentlessly building toward an emotionally wrenching climax. |
| Sight and SoundRichard KellyAn elegant rejoinder to a tired genre, a consummate work of screen adaptation, and further evidence that there is precious little Sean Penn can't achieve on film, whether before or behind the lens. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPenn and Nicholson take risks with the material and elevate the movie to another, unanticipated, haunting level. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanA provocative morality tale, The Pledge is not only the first great motion picture of 2001, but also a film that exposes Sean Penn as being every bit as talented a director as he is an actor. |
| CNN.comPaul Clinton (CNN.com)It has all the right credentials, so why is it such a muddled mess? |
| Film Freak CentralBill ChambersPenn's past directing gigs...are the work of a tortured soul; The Pledge was guided by a tortured artist. |
| Portland OregonianKim MorganOne of the most aggressively ambiguous pictures of the year. There is a certain power to that. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneJeff StricklerMystery-thriller buffs, promise yourselves that you'll see The Pledge. And while you're at it, be sure to invite along Jack Nicholson fans and anyone who saw the first two movies that Sean Penn directed. |
