Review

by Chris L

entertaining

This is not one of the more famous (author) John Grisham based-movies and it's a bit talky for my normal tastes, but it was interesting. You can thank Chris O'Donnell and Gene Hackman for two excellent acting performances which helped make this so entertaining in spots. O'Donnell plays a young attorney, with shades of Matt Damon's character in another Grisham movie, 'The Rainmaker'. Meanwhile, it's no surprise that Hackman gives us another fascinating performance, this time as the attorney's brutally racist grandfather. He's been imprisoned for a murder and O'Donnell is trying to release him from a death sentence. Faye Dunaway also is in here and has a memorable scene with "Sam." Yes, the critics were right in that this could have been better but they were off base blasting this film. It's still an entertaining film, and they forget the value of that.