With a cast this strong, this should be so much better. However, it remains an entertaining if forgettable courtroom drama, pretty much in keeping with every adaptation of a Grisham novel. The films moves briskly and the message of the film is well meaning wish fulfilment, but the plot is thin and contrived and stretches credibility to breaking point. Hackman and Hoffman are always watchable however, and both Cusack and Weisz do well to flesh out rather dull characters whose predictable motivation is revealed near the end.
Recycling is not always a good choice. I was never a big Flash comic reader but there has got to be other storylines better than the ones they keep revisiting. They were not that great the first time.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch this at first. A film about gender politics and the Mens Rights Activist group going head-to-head with Feminism seemed, well, boring and bad. I was so wrong. This film digs deep and peels away at the hidden, and highly misunderstood, layers of how not only women and men both view each other, but the societal impact it has had and the problems it continues to propel. I was left in this sense of heart broken awe that I've never experienced before. This is NOT a film about the MRA. This is a film about Gender Politics and the problems that have arisen because of those political debates. This needs to be shared and watched with as a many people as possible. We have so many issues to work though in this world, and if we can't even learn how to work together in the most basic and fundamental ways, then I feel that we are ultimately doomed as a species and as a whole.
Annoying crossover show. I didn't bother paying much attention.
I have started to skip the crossover episodes, if I miss a plot point from the normal show. Ehh... don't care, not wasting my time on this trash.
It's been stated a couple times now, but again for those of you not aware, there is and has always been three types of X-Files episodes
1) Mythology Episodes (e.g. Pilot, Duane Barry, Nisei, Closure)
2) Monster of the Week Episodes (e.g. Squeeze / Tooms, The Host, Detour, Folie a Deux)
3) Comedic [Monster of the Week] Episodes (e.g. Humbug, Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, Bad Blood)
This episode obviously fell into the third category.
That information aside, I feel like this was very close to hitting that nostalgic feeling of the earlier comedic episodes - but didn't quite make it. I definitely enjoyed it, laughed a lot, and watched it a second and third time. But I still feel like the second episode of this season is the strongest so far, then this one following, and the premiere tailing. I certainly can understand how newer fans of the show may be turned off by this one though - they're wanting aliens, conspiracies, flesh eating monsters, etc. But personally, I didn't think it was that bad.
