Watch: The Pledge 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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?.
Plot: A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter’s killer.
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Nicholson carries a flawed, yet watchable film
I don’t think I’ve ever said “Oh wow” as many times before as I did in the opening credits of ‘The Pledge’. Huge name after huge name just kept appearing. Every time I thought that had to be the end of it, another massive star would pop up. It turns out a lot of them were only there for very short cameos, but still to see all those people in one movie was pretty cool.The real star of the show at the end of the day though is Jack Nicholson. I forget what an incredibly charismatic and natural actor he was. Every scene he’s in feels so effortless and organic. I actually suspect a very large portion of my enjoyment of this film was simply down to his performance.
The movie itself was a strange one. It sets up a really interesting premise, with a retired investigator who thinks the real killer of children is still on the loose. Instead of going and hunting him though, he more or less decides to wait him out with some bait set. It’s not the worst idea, but it doesn’t make for as interesting of a film.
Then there’s the ending. I won’t go into any details. I’ll just say I did not care for it. And I usually love different and unique endings. But we had invested too much time and care into this story for that to be the conclusion. It felt cheap, unrealistic and extremely unsatisfying.
At the end of the day though it’s going to be very hard to make a bad film with Nicholson as your lead. I enjoyed this film, without ever loving it.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 35000000
Revenue 29419291
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Sean Penn
Writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski
Actors Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson
Country United States, Canada
Awards 1 win & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Moviecam Compact, Cooke Xtal Express Lenses
Laboratory Alpha Cine Service, Vancouver, Canada (processing), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,384 m (Sweden), 3,427 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process J-D-C Scope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji)