NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

jlthornb51 Despite good performances from a strong cast, this mess of film fails largely due to downright amateurish direction. Franklin shows no skill with camera and has no idea how to create atmosphere or suspense. Just point the lens at the action, which he provides little of, is not directing. The entire movie is a hodge podge of generic films of this type with nothing original. There is no spark of creativity or any sign that the director tried to do anything other than go through the motions. The novel on which the picture is based is basically butchered, then tossed aside. What is left is an empty shell of a motion picture that goes nowhere while going in all directions at the same time. Someone should have taken this out of Carl Franklin's hands and given to a talented director before too much damage was done.

FilmBuff1994 High Crimes is a decent movie with a very well developed storyline and a great cast.I was expecting it to be more of a thriller,which it certainly wasn't,but it was still an enjoyable movie,mainly because of solid performances and very great character development,the movie does drag out a bit however and isn't completely interesting the whole time.Morgan Freeman was certainly the movies highlight,he delivered a brilliant performance like he always does and his character is certainly the most likable,Ashley Judd also did a terrific job,I've complained about her acting before in Kiss the Girls,but she had certainly improved between the gap of these movies and the character was more suited for her.The thing that bothered me the most about this movie is that the "big twist " at the end was really predictable,the writers were clearly expecting it to shock the audience but it was obvious this would happen about a half hour in to the film.Predictable but still enjoyable,High Crimes is a good movie that I would recommend to anyone looking for a good crime film. A woman must uncover national security secrets to clear her husband,accused of war crimes in El Salvador.Best Performance: Morgan Freeman Worst Performance: Jim Caviezel

SnoopyStyle Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a brilliant defense lawyer with a loving husband Tom (Jim Caviezel). They have the perfect life but then Tom is arrested accused of being Sgt. Ron Chapman who massacred villagers in 1988 El Salvadore. He is defended by inexperienced military lawyer Lieutenant Embry (Adam Scott). She is over her head in military court and gets help from Charlie Grimes (Morgan Freeman). Brig. Gen. Bill Marks (Bruce Davison) was the commanding officer at the time, and Tom/Ron accuses him of a frame job. And there is Claire's flaky sister Jackie (Amanda Peet) and the crazed Maj. James Hernandez (Juan Carlos Hernández). Michael Shannon has a minor role as witness Troy Abbott.It has the bones of a functional courtroom action thriller. It's nothing special. Director Carl Franklin tries but it's not his best work. Judd and Freeman are both great actors trying to do good work. It may work a lot better if there is more doubt thrown into the movie earlier about Tom/Ron's guilt. That takes away much of the drama. This makes the twist way too jarring. Then there are the attempts at their lives. For skilled killers, they don't really follow through. It piles on a little too much. It's a close call. I have to say it fails by a hair.

Cedric_Catsuits 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.