FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Geoffrey DeLeons This film shows some of the unspoken truths about the U.S. criminal justice system, as well as the horrors of state prison. We probably would be shocked to learn just how many innocent people are in prison, many for life.We would probably be equally shocked to find out who, in the judicial system, knows just who these innocent people are. This is an extremely important issue in contemporary culture, and one that many, including myself, are afraid to talk about or to get too close to. While An Innocent Man, and Tom Selleck, both, do an admirable job in exposing how this can happen to any one of us and what we would have to do to survive, I detracted one star because it depicts a scenario only about 1/3 as horrible as real life in state prison: In real life, Jimmie Rainwood would have had multiple, simultaneous enemies, not just one. As soon as he killed one, another would have appeared. The rapes and murders in the prison were accurate and realistic. Selleck did a great job of sounding not-totally-convinced of the truth of his words when he told his visiting wife "I can handle this place. I can". While this is an extremely important film, sociologically speaking, I must remind the readers of this review of the day-to-day torture, beatings, murders, rapes, suicides, solitary confinement, deprivation, mental breakdowns and thick atmosphere of evil and insanity permeating and pervading state prison.An Innocent Man approaches these subjects, as well as the critical issue of innocent people being sent to prison by a corrupt institution, too rigid and unethical to admit its mistakes and shortcomings. For this rare and courageous look, I am grateful.

Barbe102 One of the best prison movies ever! Selleck is very good and Abraham as the hardened con is excellent.The worst premise: how do you prove you are innocent ...Dirty cops high on coke made a fatal error and enter the wrong home. An innocent man is shot; arrested; and imprisoned.His life is ruined. His life will never be the same again. Prison life is hell.What does a man of integrity and character do in prison, unjustly accused??!!His wife is obsessed with proving his innocence.So compelling ... in my husband's top 10 of all time!

tenthousandtattoos This movie looks like a TV-movie. But that's okay, because I was watching it on a TV set.Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, and aircraft engineer living in the seaside 'burbs with his wife, Kate (Laila Robins), who suffers the old 'wrong place at the wrong time' thing when two highly decorated (and highly corrupt) cops, acting on a tip, hit his house, which is on Oak Lane, mistaking it for Oak WAY, where the real drug deal is going down.Jimmie's just taken a shower while he contemplates the salad Kate left for him in the refrigerator (she's working late) when the two narcs burst in. Mistaking Jimmie's hairdryer for a gun, coke-addled detective Mike Parnell (David Rasche) shoots Jimmie.Not wanting to tarnish their "distinguished" careers, the two cops frame Jimmie and the legal system fails him and he winds up sentenced to 6 years.While Jimmie learns how to survive in the big house from lifer Virgil (F Murray Abraham), his wife writes letters, harrasses people etc to try and get him out, including clever manipulation of Internal Affairs Detective Fitzgerald (Badja Djola), and the corrupt narcs do their best to keep Jimmie and Kate silent about their collossal screw-up.A pretty formulaic prison-drama revenge-story, An Innocent Man has strength in it's performances and in it's realistic depiction of prison-life, particularly the tendency for some more experienced inmates to take pity on the "new guy" and give him some pointers so he stands at least some chance of surviving beyond his first week. And Laila Robins is really good as Rainwood's wife, remaining steadfast in her belief in Jimmie's innocence. And it steers clear of most of the jail-movie-clichés we are used to, like the "oh my god it's a shower scene...don't drop the soap", or the sadistic warden character.This was never meant to be a dialogue-driven character study, nor a psychological examination of what incarceration does to the human soul. It's a revenge flick, a Tom Selleck action movie (you gotta love that he simply adds some 'handlebars' to that ridiculous moustache for his tough-guy jail-look) and a bite of after-dinner entertainment that delivers. Todd Graff deserves a mention as the hapless Robby, a repeat offender who offers Jimmie some initial tips when they first arrive, though he gets doused in petrol and set alight about 10 minutes in...he's really good though, playing the loser who knows what every prison on the eastern seaboard looks like.F Murray Abraham is worth the price of admission alone. He has some great lines. Oh, wait...yeah and that flying leap Tom Selleck does out of nowhere to take down Det Parnell...classicly weird and entertaining. All in all, worth a look.

tugito It was a film about life..about circumstances that we never imagine that could happen but it happens all the time around us.. While I was watching that film I just wanted to kick something,my nerves where full of anger just because it gets too deep in the main character and it makes you feel you are him. It's surely one of the best films about corruption and it has a very strong ending. It is not a happy film, it's a hit to the bone film. take it or leave it. I cannot categorize it into something like society film or thriller, it is a life film I should say better and it is brilliant. Its one of those films that you always remember from the 90's as the one film that you didn't think it would be good but finally changed your whole month...