If you’re getting a sense of deja vu about “Solace,” that might be because despite the film’s star-studded cast, it’s been knocking around for over a year now. It’s already been released in many territories around the world, and it’s only now coming to American cinemas, perhaps seeking to cash in whatever it can on Anthony Hopkins great turn in HBO‘s “Westworld.” In other words, it probably isn’t very good.
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Still, an ensemble including Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Abbie Cornish is hard to resist, even if the premise about a psychic physician helping to solve a string of unsolved murders seems a bit outlandish. Here’s the official synopsis:
When FBI Special Agent Joe Merriwether (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is unable to solve a series of homicides, he decides to enlist the help of his former colleague Dr. John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), a retired physician with psychic powers. The reclusive Clancy, who shuttered his practice and retreated from the world following the death of his daughter and subsequent break-up of his marriage, wants nothing to do with the case. He soon changes his mind after seeing disturbingly violent visions of Joe’s partner, FBI Special Agent Katherine Cowles’s (Abbie Cornish) ultimate demise. When Clancy’s exceptional intuitive powers put him on the trail of a suspect, Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell), the doctor soon realizes his abilities are no match against the extraordinary powers of this vicious murderer on a mission.
“Solace” opens in theaters and On Demand on December 16th.
