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Really Surprised!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's a pretty even movie with a nice factor of meh. The acting is okay from the leads but somehow better from the supporting cast members. They wanted desperately to throw a twist at the end and it doesn't pay off, more that it harms the film with its presence. It's not a good mystery plot and as a law film it's not overly interesting in that sense either. I watched it, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

No one would believe that the rapping will not be tested by a medical examiner. Mike accused his passed-away father that he was rapping him since he was 12 (and now he is almost 18 yrs old), during this period of time he did not even try to tell his mother, the closest person to Mike I suppose. I expected one question from defense to Mike "Did you ever tell your mother about your father's abuse"? The story line is empty, so the question was missing. Since the first pleading, I felt something was going very wrong. Questions are very few, answers were not clear. The closing pleadings were too funny to believe (couple of minutes for a murder case!!). The husband told the lawyer than some one close to me has a relation with my wife, but no one knows how he figured out this fact. The funniest thing is that, after killing the husband, the lawyer asked the wife to put her finger prints on the knife- this means the wife is willing to go to jail to cover her relation with the lawyer. Isn't silly enough? How come a first-class lawyer who planned for a complete and clean murder drops his hand watch in the scene. He did not forget to wear gloves, of course, but on the other hand he tried to cover his head in an empty house where Mike should not have been there at all. I can't believe this. a 4-star rating is generous for such movies. My advice for all not to lose their valuable time to watch this!

Extremely tedious, with poorly written dialogues and crappy acting. Renee Zellweger,usually a fine actress, seems bored and annoyed playing this nonsense. Reeves is at his usual blankness. The actor who plays the defendant is just awful, a lizard has more facial expression than him. He's probably related to the producers. To be short, the plot twist in the end is ridiculous: if they already had the whole story made up (Renee killed his openly abusive husband in self-defense, after years of beating), why the hell did she let his son take the blame, even knowing that he would probably go to jail for life? What a nice mom! BTW, it seems really easy to get away with murder: he abused me, that's it, not guilty! Just terrible, don't waste an hour and a half of you life watching this. You have been warned

SPOILER!The movie delivers good performance from Reeves and Zellweger. Fans of a courtroom movies will like it. I was surprised that Reeves was holding the whole movie on his arms in the most of scenes. It is a challenge after movies like The Devil's Advocate. He is in shape and it's a nice change from sci-fi or action movies (Matrix, John Wick). Back to the 90's I would say. I would love to see him in more movies like that or like The Gift (2001).Contrary to other reviews, I believe that the ending was very predictable or not strong enough to make the movie good enough. The problem is that the movie is not as good as A Few Good Men or or A Time to kill. However, it was enjoyable. And I recommend it.