This is a sort of forgotten Kathryn Bigelow movie. It took two years from initial festival screenings until it was released theatrically. It didn't receive very good reviews by all accounts and more or less disappeared. While its true that its definitely uneven, like all Kathryn Bigelow films, its worth watching. The structure of the story has two parallel stories - one set in contemporary times and the other back in the 19th century. The latter is about a double murder on a remote island in which there has always been doubt if the correct person was actually the one caught for it, the contemporary part of the film centres on a group of people on a luxury yacht who visit the site of this historical murder, with one of the characters writing a story on it. The two threads don't mesh together as well as they could, with the 19th century murder/mystery being the stronger and more focused. But it does have a good cast - Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley, etc - and its overall pretty good!
Review of The Weight of Water
