High Crimes | | Cast : | Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, James Caviezel | | Director : | Carl Franklin | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 05, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | February 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | Plot Holes Big Enough to Drive a Truck Through | Content
 | Fine acting, especially by Morgan Freeman. Unfortunately the drunk but brilliant lawyer is a bit of a cinematic cliche.
Then we have to deal with the conspiracy by the military and the husband being the fall guy. (Don't read any further if you want to watch this movie) So we go through this whole conspiracy investigation, the General is sufficiently blackmailed to have the charges dropped, then the guy ends up as having done it after all. So then the conspiracy was really a bogus plot device to mislead the audience. The phone taps,Ashley Judd being followed, getting beaten up, etc, etc, etc, all misdirection by the writers and director. but the cast and acting were all good. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | not better than channel surfing | Content
| Other reviews rant about Ms. Judd; frankly, after Double Jeopardy and High Crimes, I'm not seeing the superb actress, but that's aside the point. This movie has one point that can be summed up in this review so you can spend your time better on something else-- Search for truth, not innocence. Especially if you are an attorney. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | another one of them Ashley Judd thrillers | Content
| Ashley Judd's (Normal Life, The Locusts) husband, played by Jim Caviezel (The Passion Of The Christ, Frequency) gets arrested and put on the guilty bench for a slaughter in El Salvador a bunch of years ago. So, Judd hires the always superb Morgan Freeman (Unleashed, Million Dollar Baby) to help her out on the case and to find out the truth while she tries to get her husband out of imprisonment. Judd then has threats on her life after. The opening sequence pulls you in, the thrills are a mixed bag (car crash scene for example was good) and the outcome, well, I really saw coming anyway. Ashley Judd's thrid thriller but its her second one with a murderous manipulative husband(Double Jeopardy). Twisted and Kiss The Girls had a killer running after her or playing games with her noggin. Also starring Bruce Davison (X-Men, Dahmer), Amanda Peet (The Whole Nine Yards, The Whole Ten Yards) and Tom Bower (Die Hard 2) |
| Rating | | | Date | May 12, 2005 | | Summary | Great Suspense and plausible story, green light go! | Content
| Defense attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) seems to have the perfect life. She has a high profile job at a big firm, a beautiful home outside San Francisco, and a husband, Tom (James Caviezel of The Thin Red Line), who loves her. Claire's biggest problem appears to be that she wants to have a baby, and she's having trouble getting pregnant.
But when the police investigate a routine break-in at her home, they uncover the truth about her husband's identity, and her life is thrown into turmoil. Claire finds out that her husband's name is actually Ron Chapman, and that he's an ex-marine accused of murdering seven innocent civilians in El Salvador during a raid in the late '80s. He admits that he was there, and that he changed his identity to escape prosecution for the crimes, but he insists that he's innocent, and that the massacre was committed by another soldier under the orders of a powerful general (Bruce Davison), who is using Ron as a patsy to cover it up.
Claire is eventually convinced that Ron's telling the truth. Faced with defending her husband in an unfamiliar military courtroom, Claire enlists the aid of Charles Grimes (Morgan Freeman), an ex-Army judge advocate with an axe to grind. Stonewalled by the military bureaucracy at every turn, they uncover a web of deception and disappearing witnesses, and they soon find their own lives in danger. High Crimes was adapted from Joseph Finder's novel |
| Rating | | | Date | April 11, 2005 | | Summary | Evil Military Strike Again | Content
| This film is a waste of time. The "surprise" ending is evident from the very beginning. Judd, Freeman and Cavesial are mired in a mess. No use in revealing the "twist" as it is evident very early in the story.
One BIG plot hole, Judd's sister is introduced and just left hanging around. She serves no purpose and her relationshipo with the young marine is never resolved.
This one is a real waste of time and talents. |
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