DocJD
I started writing this review at the 3 anticlimax but there were...I can't remember how many more. But what will be remembered is the repetitious melodrama and close ups of Freeman swilling booze, and Jude's tears. As always, even when the story line has almost fainted with exhaustion, Freeman's performance manages to carry you to the end of the movie...there was probably other fair performances, but they are lost among the dull wooden recitals of the others. You really need to have absolutely nothing else to do, like me with a broken leg, to watch this dribble...or perhaps to drink as much booze as Freeman does to make sitting through this movie a little more bearable.
bigverybadtom
A woman lawyer is Christmas shopping with her carpenter husband when all of a sudden, he is arrested by the federal government, and deprived of his clothes. Then he gets a new outfit-the uniform of a United States Marine sergeant, and he is charged with going AWOL after a covert mission in El Salvador where he is supposed to have committed the crime of massacring a group of civilians in a village in the 1980's.The woman suspects her husband is being railroaded when she finds a bug placed in her home and her defending counsel an inexperienced first lieutenant, as well as witnesses to the incident disappearing. She finds a black disgruntled ex-soldier as a defense counsel, who knows the ways of the military bureaucracy. She also hears from a man claiming to have been in the village where the massacre took place.Events in the movie lead us to suspect the husband is being railroaded-but what is really going on? This is based on a novel of the same title, but reportedly different from it. But holes crop up as the story continues, and we wonder if this sort of situation would have occurred in real life.
LeonLouisRicci
A rather formulaic film from a Director that has a flare for the stylish, but not here. It is a predictable picture that keeps your interest if not peeks your interest. There are some silly moments in this serious film (the ridiculous spraying oil scene) and some bland side characters.Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman sport some symmetry, but James Carville is as stone faced as ever and whispers most of his lines with little effect. The Movie has a big budget feel that adds little to the proceedings and would have worked well with more restraint.Not a bad film but is clunky in spots and some interesting setups are letdowns. This is an average affair that should have been better from the Director and Stars who know better.
sheepmonk2000
This film is highly predictable. As soon as the husband of the the main character (Claire Kubik, portrayed by Ashley Judd)is accused of murder and claims certain military personal are conspiring against him, I was pretty sure where the film was going. All leads pointed to the the husbands innocence, however, it was a no brainer that things wouldn't be that simple and Mrs Kubik's lover would sooner or late be revealed as the bad guy that he really was/is.So, apart from it being really predictable as to what came next in the movie, the film itself isn't too bad. The dialogues not too shabby either, and the acting all round is pretty acceptable for me. So not one to really write home about, but watchable/fairly enjoyable nonetheless. 4/10 or 2*.
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