Found the movie dragged on a little at times, and a slow burn to start.. but plenty of twist and turns and an overall good thriller, with a great cast. A young Jeanne Tripplehorn is also very pleasing on the eye!
Didn’t hold up well. Very melodramatic.
Great film. Cruise, Hackman, Tripplehorn - all at top form. Easily rewatchable again and again. 90s was a great decade for cinema.
A bit long, but well narrated and interpreted.
This is a case where pretty much everything goes wrong from the very start. Right from the opening scenes it already announces itself as something that’s going to be cheesy and dumb. The dialogue and acting are utterly bizarre, it has that exact same corny vibe that I don’t like about Cameron Crowe movies. I can’t even tell if Cruise’s acting is bad or if it’s just the direction or melodramatic lines given to him. The main characters are well defined, but they find themselves trapped in a mystery plot that’s impossible to take seriously. Some of the twists are so ludicrous and schlocky that they’d only work in a satirical context, it’s that implausible. The movie is fascinating, but not in that arthouse ‘that’s an interesting way of looking at it’ sort of way, rather I was asking myself ‘what on earth were they thinking?’ continuously. Stylistically the film has no distinguishable identity, both the cinematography and score are unremarkable and uninteresting. It’s just a massive dud from whichever way you look at it.
3/10
Strange to rewatch and see Tom Cruise playing lead about joining an organization that controls and monitors its members...
Anyway, I found this nostalgic and delightful. It is overly long, and the pacing does suffer for it. I agree with others that the first half is much better than the second, but it's still a fun thriller.
This would have been so much better with a proper soundtrack.
Ninties Suspense-Thriller. Quite entertaining.
It's a little long and I liked the first half mystery more than the second half. I loved the score. I didn't expect to see Tom Cruise run in this but was pleasantly surprised.
I had not seen her again since I saw her in the cinema, she is still fine, some of them look young. And yes, Tom Cruise runs. The soundtrack, I've listened to it a few times and I love it
Tom Cruise as a hotshot lawyer, fresh out of school, who takes a tantalizing job offer in Memphis and discovers it's more than he bargained for. Soon he's on the run from both the law and his former bosses, trying to serve justice without sacrificing his young career along the way. It's serviceable, but has some issues.
Most of the plot revolves around various cast members making poor decisions under pressure, which is odd considering they share a profession that demands cool heads. The big-spending highs never seem all that high, perhaps a symptom of the movie's age (the cushy home Cruise is provided by his new employers is furnished to look like your Grandma's crib), and the chief threats can be hard to take seriously because they always seem so bumbling and aloof. The firm's muscle, led by a rotund, elderly Wilford Brimley (with a quick appearance from Breaking Bad's Dean Norris), is a comedy of errors and the pursuing FBI squad, likewise, can't get out of its own way.
It has twists and turns, standard for a Grisham adaptation, but they aren't always set up properly and don't make a ton of sense. Usually you'd expect some great oration from this kind of place setting, but the monologues are kept short and underwhelming in favor of a series of frantic chase scenes and tense near-misses. A touch on the bland side, it's not as bad as my complaints might let on but also not as good as some of the author's better-known works.
I don't know whether this was a 90s thing, but why the heck are all 90s movies longer than 2 hours? This movie could have easily been a 90 mins movie. Too slow and too boring.
A shabby enactment of an otherwise amazingly thrilling book.
Very bad and boring movie, but at least it was long. Also Jeanne Tipplehorn is an extremely annoying actor.
Shout by blackrock63BlockedParent2016-03-28T12:09:05Z
I love this movie. I never read the book so can't compare but let's face it, how many movies are as good as the book.
I say just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is, a great Saturday night movie