(Chris & Kenny-Gras' Rating: 3 Tubs Buttered Popcorn)
I just finished watching this movie and I just had to review it. It's that damn good!
If you like courtroom dramas, appreciate excellent acting and an expertly-filmed movie this is for you. This is just a really good movie with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling playing characters who engage in a battle of wits (the best scenes in the movie are between the two, and there are many!).
Hopkins plays a husband who discovers his wife having an affair, shoots her, confesses the same night and then has things cleverly arranged where it's almost impossible to convict him.
Gosling plays a young, hotshot prosecuting attorney on his way to bigger and better things with a change of scenery to corporate law but gets stuck with this open-and-shut case right before he switches firms. The trouble is, it's a lot more than he figured and he isn't used to losing. Hopkins knows this, of course, and plays on his vanity.
Gosling evolves from a me-only lawyer to someone who really wants justice, even if it costs him. Both characters are cocky and smart and the twists and turns just add to the fun. I enjoyed watching all the actors performances and was very impressed.
I could have watched this story unfold for another two hours and would have been happy to do so, am I'm not one to sit still for long periods these days. That's how good this was....just Grade A film-making and storytelling.
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