Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

An Exercise In Nonsense

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Synopsis: A lawyer who is happily married finds out her husband is not who she thought he was when he gets arrested for war crimes. She stops at nothing to clear her husbands name.Review: Here we have a lawyer who ends up out of her depth when she has to defend her husband in military court, the overall plot is decent and the overall movie is well-acted and well-directed, there is an element to this movie that is slightly slow-paced, they take their time telling the story, i think a couple of scenes could have been excluded, but all in all High Crimes is a watchable mystery thriller with a shocking plot-twist.

A woman has to defend her husband after she learns that he may have killed someone while still serving in the military. she has to learn the ways of the military court, as civilian laws to not apply in military court., Morgan Freeman is pretty good in this,, Ashley Judd does a decent job,, the story however, is full of holes and hard to follow as far as the whole military cover up scandal going on.. Bruce Davison and Amanda Peet have supporting roles in the movie as well. our military officer accused of the crime comes off as a decent enough guy, but soon we learn that maybe he isn't who we think he is,, is there a military cover-up going on,, will the wife keep defending her husband,, watch and find out,, not a bad movie,, just a little hard to follow in the middle of the movie, made it a little confusing to piece together for me .

Ashley "Amazing Asymetric Eyebrows" Judd and her large plastic forehead seem to have cornered the market in the powerful yet vulnerable woman category. This time she's standing by her man, but is she right to do so? More to the point, is she completely off her rocker to be involved in such tosh?Morgan Freeman brings a touch of acting respectability, and the delicious and way-too-beautiful-to-be-human Amanda Peet is welcome refreshment in what would otherwise be drab and low-class film making by any standards. Adam Scott does his best in a limiting role, so no complaints there. But the rest of the cast and crew should hang their heads in shame.Maybe it's Judd's sickly smile, but I felt I was being disrespected throughout. More likely it's just another example of cynical, lazy, production-line film making.

The acting in this movie is stunning. When she started crying in the hospital room I got really choked up. Morgan is Morgan, he would be great reading the back of a cereal box. I liked the sister since she was so darned cute in that Tedesco Bruce Willis movie. Caviezel was perfect-- playing a whole hour and a half while still being not too sympathetic so we can hate him at the end. What is less than stunning is the plot. Yeah its tired and hackneyed, but the real crime is the twist at the end. Well, it really is not a twist, its some FSF (film school fuc&s*) who decided it would be cool to screw everyone's head. That is the only reason to do this in a movie, to giggle and show complete contempt for the audience. There may be cocaine abuse involved-- "chop chop chop snooooooort--- and yeah man, lets make so he really did it." I think it was just so plotlistically bankrupt that they felt that they had to do something really dramatically stupid for the ending. A twist would OK, we like twists. let's see what's a good twist-- maybe Morgan and a couple Marines are gay? Or have the sister cheating with Ashley Judd's husband before he goes to jail, and its a big drama deal, and Ashley forgives him, and then she has the baby and its black. That would be a nice twist. Morgan, you dog.So when a plot sucks this bad but the acting is brilliant, a good editor might be able to restructure the movie but it surely could have been saved with a couple weeks of re-shoots. OK, I hate that Caveziel guy, so lets have him be an abusive husband and she wants to get a divorce, but he has some hold on her. So lets have her frame him for the crime, and then her boss at the high-tone law firm finds out she did this to get a divorce, and we are all worried for her, but the twist at the end is that this is why they make her a partner, since after all, lawyers are fun to call scumbags. We need that sister in the flick, she is so darn perky, so lets have Morgan get it on with her. After all, he doesn't get to chain up Christina Ricci like Samuel Jackson did, so we need something to get him to agree to the re-shoots.So Cavaziel ends up the schmuck, maybe a cuckolded schmuck, Morgan and the sister do a nice interracial soft-porn featurette, and the female lead reaffirms our shared hatred of the legal profession. I would be glib saying $85 mil US gross, but I suspect we could squeeze $56-58 million out of it. Maybe $60 mil if we do some action figures as a tie-in.*Gratuitous "Wag the Dog" reference.