The first in a long series of unsatisfying Grisham adaptations.
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05/26/08
The Firm (1993)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:38
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, a young and hungry Harvard Law... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Reviews for The Firm
The fact that this was a hit proves, once again, that the average IQ is only 100.
04/30/03
What starts out as interesting becomes increasingly hokey and silly -- Wilford Brimley is ludicrously cast as the firm's senior hit man -- where it should be intense and suspenseful.
03/04/06
The Firm is never boring (even at almost 2 hours and 40 minutes) but it never really sparkles either.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/30/05
Very little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller.
01/01/00
Top CriticIs this a thriller? You've never scene a 'suspense film' drag its heels so deplorably, enlivened only by some colorful character acting.
08/17/03
The book moved at turbo speed. At two and a half hours, the movie crawls.
05/12/01
Top CriticTom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
05/26/08
Top CriticPollack makes a solid job of it, as does Cruise. But solid isn't enough when it comes to thrillers -- or courtroom dramas, for that matter. Solid is great when it comes to office furniture.
01/01/00
Top CriticOnly if you have NOT read the book, would I recommend the movie; otherwise, I would say skip it.
01/01/00
The movie is extremely long (two hours and 34 minutes) and so slow that by the end you feel as if you've been standing up even if you've been sitting down.
05/20/03
This is a professional machine of a movie that compresses huge amounts of information into its two and a half hours of screen time. But it's so weighed down by detail, it fails to generate any real suspense.
05/26/08
No review available.
07/27/04
An exciting thriller; Holly Hunter is fun and Gene Hackman, as always, steals the show.
08/30/02
No review available.
03/24/03
No review available.
09/05/03
An all-star cast otherwise makes up for a largely uninspired, overly complex, and far too long movie that nonetheless maintains audience interest.
01/01/00
No review available.
03/20/08
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July 21, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: Two for the Money
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