Best movie of this year hands down!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Don Johnson really gets to show his stuff impressively playing accused wife murderer David Greenhill. He is vicious, manipulative, conniving and as such, would make a terrific TROLLing poster on the message boards. He is totally without morality, truthfulness or empathy. He is a psychopath BUT he is man-pretty and charming and the women he cons just love him.Rebecca DeMornay is the lawyer who gets conned and then legally forced into defending this indefensible person. The always interesting Jack Warden is her friend private detective Moe. All of the actors are good at their jobs despite a few major plot holes. The story itself is pretty labyrinthine but it can be followed. The ending is satisfying even though unbelievable.The best part is watching the workings of a truly psychopathic mind at work. It may leave you shaken if you know there really are such people out there !

This film often on The Movie Channel was made in the early 90's when there was a lack of new suspense films...audiences were ready for something more. Also at this time was when "Silence of the Lambs" came out, and for that time was groundbreaking.So for what this is, it is a good TV film. DeMornay as ambitious criminal attorney (she was very good in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle") wonder what she is filming these days.Anyway, Don Johnson as ladies man who is accused of killing his wife. There is a cameo with Jack Warden (excellenet veteran actor who was also in Lumet's "And Justice for All" and "The Verdict" with Paul Newman an excellent courtroom drama).Overall we have seen the story before, Johnson as conceited narcissist taunting his attorney...there is a twist at the end. There are several familiar scenes which Hitchcock aficionados will pick up on, including the "North by Northwest" cliffhanger ending. It's been done before, but worth watching for a few decent performances. 8/10.

Usually, before the woman in jeopardy discovers that her client or her handyman or gardener is guilty of murder, she has to fall in love and have an affair with him. The examples are too numerous to list but "Jagged Edge" can serve. In this case, Rebecca De Mornay is a lawyer at a high-end Chicago firm. She's hired by the narcissistic Don Johnson to defend him when he's accused of tossing his wealthy wife out a fourteen-story window.The odd thing -- almost the ONLY unpredictable feature of the movie -- is that she is wary of him from the beginning. She accepts the retainer, gets him out on bail, and defends him in court, with the assistance of the usual flawed investigator. Sometimes the assistant is a drunk -- Robert Loggia or Morgan Freeman -- and sometimes just well meaning but old and a little out of it. Here, it's Jack Warden, who played a similar role in "Verdict," a much better film.This is one hoary suspense device after another. A hand may reach in from off screen at a particularly spooky moment and shock the heroine. It soon becomes clear that Don Johnson is a homicidal maniac and we get scene after scene of people alone at night in deserted urban spaces like empty offices, dark hotel corridors, and those horrible multi-level parking lots with lots of shadows and distant blue neon.I don't know how Sidney Lumet -- a fine director -- could wrap his mind around a story like this. I don't know how he could have coped with it except by dozing off in his director's chair. The plot seems to have been ground out by a computer. Any questions about it could have been answered by a Magic Eight Ball.The art director certainly knew what he wanted. The settings are all sterile and the walls festooned with tasteful paintings. There's never any doubt that we're in greenback territory, although most of the supporting players speak with Canadian accents. There is nothing shabby about the settings, nor should there be.Jack Warden is his reliable self. And Rebecca De Mornay, thoroughly glamorized, has rarely looked so attractive. I thought she was more appealing as the raggedy, freckled, rosy-cheeked stowaway in "Runaway Train," but that's my perversion. She turns in a decent, textured performance too. The same can't be said for Don Johnson. Part of it must be the role as written, slimy and repulsive. But part is also Don Johnson, who has never convinced me that he's a good actor, though he's often cast as some masculine type who carries a cloud of pheromones around with him wherever he goes.This is strictly routine suspense, but if that's what you're looking for, the film delivers it.

Stalking and talking seems to be what "Guilty as Sin" is all about. Don Johnson does the stalking of his lawyer, Rebecca De Mornay, and everyone in the film talks and talks. Unfortunately, the womanizing Johnson, comes across as an almost unreal villain. He assaults Stephen Lang, yet no police are ever involved. He produces a surprise witness, who's motivation for giving him an alibi for his wife's murder borders on ridiculous. The only redeeming factor about Don Johnson is that his character is so despicable, you have to hang around for the ending, simply to see him get what's due. Don't blink however because the end when it finally does come is both swift and a real stretch of reality. Watchable, but not much more. - MERK