Stone

Stone is a psychological thriller without the thrill. That's sad because the script attracted talent like Robert DeNiro and Ed Norton. The premise sounds promising. A parole officer working in a prison meets an inmate who will not only say anything to get out but will do anything, including recruiting his wife to seduce the old guy. And when the old guy (that's DeNiro) gets a look at the wife (a sexy Milla Jovovich) well, why not? Who cares if he goes to jail, or screws up his pending retirement, or loses his family, or pisses off a psychopath? The behavior in this film by every single character just doesn't make sense. If anyone in this movie made one logical or honest choice at any point the movie would have been over a half hour in. That would have been a mercy.
The phrase of the day for "Stone" is heavy-handed. Ed Norton (a great actor) is over-the-top and annoying right from the get-go. DeNiro (beyond a great actor) ladles on the guilt-ridden angst with a trowel, and the incessant drone of conservative religious radio in almost every non-prison scene is as irritating as listening to that crap in real life. By the time "Stone" comes to its unsatisfying conclusion, I wanted to beat my head in with....well, a stone. Wasting talent like this should be a parole violation.