i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Movie Review: "Changeling" (2008)Entirely carried by Angelina Jolie's performance as a mother in distress, accusing everyone of bringing home an impostor son, director Clint Eastwood alongside with cinematographer Tom Stern and editor Joel Cox deliver a pitch-perfect Mystery-Drama, which can be watched in 135 Minutes of a calm Sunday afternoon to indulge a feelings that the world out there can strike illusions as a delusion on a human's mind, while constant twist and violent outbursts keep any spectator with time at one's heel to a aroused conclusion to be remembered. A indeed righteously U.S. contributor in competition at the Cannes Film Festival of year 2008 in its 61st edition. © 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

I have to make a plug for Vidangel here: just saw this streamed on VidAngel since it was rater R but it's a harrowing story I knew I nevertheless as a parent had to see and the 1928 case has similar elements to an Turns out, Gordon Northcott, the serial killer in the Wineville chicken murders, used some of the same tactics used by the pedophilia network today as chronicled in the Franklin cover-up case. According FBI agent Ted L. Gunderson, an adult survivor of satanist pedophilia in the Franklin Cover-up case named Paul Bonacci relayed to him that using a child to lure other children near playgrounds and other public areas to a kidnapper's car was one way his captors acquired children for abuse,torture, and murder. See Gunderson's YouTube video "Throw them in Jail for Life: Franklin Cover Up (1 of 3)", time index 1:54Also, Northcott's tactic of enlisting this same boy to help him kill, mutilate and dispose of the bodies of his victims is similar to Paul Bonacci's story as relayed in chapter 10 of his defense attorney John DeCamp's book, "The Franklin Cover-up":(The following is a graphic excerpt of survivor Paul Bonacci's account and is disturbing but nevertheless needs to be told as some of the perpetrators are still at large and this pedophile network is still active and includes dirty judges, adoption agency officials, and prominent government and business leaders, and law enforcement. This took place in an "area with big trees" about an hour's drive from Sacramento, California, in January of 1984. Again, be forewarned; you can't unread this teenage boy's account of abuse he gave to his lawyer but every parent needs to know about this:)"There was a cage with a boy in it who was not wearing anything. Nicholas and I were given these tarzan things to put around us and stuff. They told me to f--- the boy and stuff. At first I said no and they held a gun to my (genitals) and said do it or else lose them or something like that...We were told to f--- him and stuff and beat on him. I didn't try to hurt him. We were told to put our d---s in his mouth and stuff and sit on the boys p---- and stuff and they filmed it. We did this stuff to the boy for about 30 minutes or an hour when a man came in and kicked us...He grabbed the boy and started f---ing him and stuff...The boy was bleeding from his rectum and the men tossed him and me and stuff and put the boy right next to me and grabbed a gun and blew the boys head off."The boys blood was all over me and I started yelling and crying. The men grabbed Nicholas and I and forced us to lie down. They put the boy on top of Nicholas who was crying and they were putting Nicholas hands on the boys *ss. They put the boy on top of me and did the same thing. They then forced me to f--- the dead boy..they put a gun to our heads to make us do it. His blood was all over us. They made us kiss the boys lips and to eat him out. Then they made me do something I don't want to even write so I won't."After that the men grabbed Nicholas and drug him off screaming they put me up against a tree and put a gun to my head but fired into the air. I heard another shot from somewhere. I then saw the man who killed the boy drag him like a toy. Everything including when the men put the boy in a trunk was filmed. They took me with them and we went up in a plane. I saw the bag the boy was in. We went over a very thick brush area with a clearing in it. Over the clearing they dropped the boy. One said the men with the hoods would take care of the body for them.Ted Gunderson notes that Paul Bonacci saw some of the children in this pedophile ring auctioned off and shipped to D.C., New York and Paris for sex parties. See "Throw them in Jail for Life: Franklin Cover Up (2 of 3)" time index 5:39.

(Flash Review)A mother loses her child and after a few weeks the police find a boy that isn't hers but heavily force her to accept that it is her child to avoid embarrassment to the police department. She tries to fight and prove their wrongdoing and the police fight back with extreme measures. Will the mother ever find her son and will the police ever admit their wrongdoing? This is based on a true story and is a very well-done period piece with great production value, good pacing and a compelling story. Jolie put forth a solid effort even though, it is hard for me to see past her Hollywood persona. Some nice shot framing mixed with some honest feeling scenes made for a quality picture.

Not a bad movie, but it isn't very well-directed. It assumes the mother is in a vacuum and that the whole "where is my son?!?" plea is just between her and the fake son. There's no family to back her up? No teachers that would back up her story that the impostor isn't her son, at the very beginning?!?!? No neighbors, no friends, no aunts, uncles, etc., etc., etc.?!I think Clint Eastwood is a great actor but his direction skills aren't very good when it comes to an important topic like police corruption.IMDb is apparently being run by dumb people/kids, and is saying the review above is not long enough. How stupid. So here it goes again:Not a bad movie, but it isn't very well-directed. It assumes the mother is in a vacuum and that the whole "where is my son?!?" plea is just between her and the fake son. There's no family to back her up? No teachers that would back up her story that the impostor isn't her son? No neighbors, no friends, no aunts, uncles, etc., etc., etc.? I think Clint Eastwood is a great actor but his direction skills aren't very good when it comes to an important topic like police corruption.