True Crime

Pleasantly surprised at how i got so sucked into this story when i would have thought otherwise. Well done. Really dug the scenes with Clint Dennis &/or James. The big build up at the end was a bit much.

Dead Man's Curve, they really ought to do something about that place (said while shaking off multiple police cars with a .. donut).

not so good

Weird as hell - black homeless yelling at women, Speed Zoo, clumsy, dark humor bits - but still works as journalistic thriller about an asshole old reporter and his hunches. The rushed ending feels adds layers to its overall welcoming stupidity - Ev discovering that other black man shot the white girl, bringing the mother to talk to the newspaper's owner to stop the death sentence - but its emotional moments (interview, Frank's encounter with family) make this pretty better than average.

Viewed February 2, 2018. The only movie daring enough to put Clint Eastwood, James Woods and Denis Leary in a movie together. The homeless man character makes the dog in Sudden Impact look like comedy's finest moment. However, as politically and dramatically confused as this is, it has a couple of qualities that I love in Clint's work, namely the thematic focus on ethics, and the sheer emotional drive of good, honest people working in a broken world.

The more inescapably close it gets to the inmate's execution, the more irrevocably defective his only human hope is. There is in fact not one single reductively good or bad person to be found in this constantly compelling story about the instability of perspective, sometimes depending on a few feet's difference in where you're standing.

75.500

Pace, tension and humour didn't pick up until about 45 minutes in, and Clint once again played a recovering alcoholic sugar-daddy. But that's what he does best.

75.000

Passes the time.

A bad story badly acted and badly directed about a death row execution. Subplots are equally bad. Kill me first.

Average thriller, but Eastwood would be fun to watch talking about paint drying.

Competent (nothing amazing here) directing and acting save this half-hazard screenplay where nothing much of interest happens. But Eastwood's gruff is familiar in a good sort of way, and it's enjoying enough to watch him curmudgeon about smoking a cig.

Terribly written, reasonably entertaining movie though

Not bad.

Another reasonably enjoyable Dirty Harry alike. Eastwood might be a journalist here, but he certainly doesn't loose any of that attitude. Overall it's pretty enjoyable, with a familiar but typically well executed death row orientated plotline. Ends a little too abruptly though.

Eastwood is one of my big heroes in cinema, both as a producer/director and as an actor. But honestly, he's way too old to pull off this particular role convincingly. Denis Leary needs to be in more movies - he's a talker, and so is James Woods. The dynamics between Woods, Leary and Eastwood make for some of the best parts of the movie and the story as such, well...has been done better in other movies such as Dead Man Walking or The Life of David Gale. A lesser Eastwood, this one.

ARE U KIDDING ME HE SAVES THE GUY LIFE AND ALL HE DOES IS WAVE. LOL

Kind of a slight Eastwood movie, but still engaging.

Clint Eastwood slips a little but not much

Score based on distant memory.