Stillwater Review: Matt Damon is a Dad Looking for Justice
The idea of a movie whereMatt Damonplays a scruffy roughneck who travels to a foreign country and starts stirring things up in a community of color while seeking justice for his imprisoned daughter easily lends itself to aLiam Neesonaction thriller, and the best thing to be said aboutTom McCarthy’sStillwateris that it is not a Taken knockoff. The problem is that it never fully commits to being much different. The film, which premiered this week as part of the Cannes Film Festival, is heavily inspired by the real-life Amanda Knox case, where an American college exchange student — here, Allison Baker, played byAbigail Breslin— is imprisoned for the murder of another student....