'Solace' crawls along with very little suspense, due to a dreamlike performance by Anthony Hopkins and a meandering plot. BUT....when Colin Farrell finally enters the plot. Late in the running time, the film takes on some vitality. Farrell's work is one of his strongest...and one that shows deep acting gifts...running an amazing gamut in its short span of time. He is worth seeing. The film, though, about how clairvoyance solves murders, should have been far more intriguing than it turns out to be. We are told, from the onset, that Hopkins character is greatly depressed and solitary. The reasons are shown, via a host of visual blips on the screen, but Hopkins never shows us how this changes took place...and how he reached his point of no return. The other cast members play one-dimensional characters as well as possible.
