A Few Good Men (1992)

All Critics (43) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (7) | DVD (18)

An extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story.

December 21, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

The same histrionic fireworks that gripped theater audiences will prove even more compelling to filmgoers due to the star power and dramatic screw-tightening.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

The screenplay is a good one, directed with care and acted, for the most part, with terrific conviction.

May 20, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner (Misery), who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that literally vibrates with energy.

May 12, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Men is full of loaded, manly moments, great clashes of will and excellent buzz cuts.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

The movie's setup scenes have good energy to them.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The final scene, when Kaffee locks horns with Jessep, more than makes up for the predictability of what's come before.

December 21, 2008 Full Review | Comment

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Although Nicholson has little more than an extended cameo, he seizes the final courtroom scene and makes it a tour de force of cinema.

December 21, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Film4

The 1080p picture makes this film look as good as it ever has.

September 19, 2007 Full Review | Comment

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Julgando-se mais importante e inteligente do que é na verdade, o filme conta com um roteiro ingênuo em seu idealismo juvenil e traz Cruise em uma performance implausível e repleta de maneirismos de estrela.

August 16, 2006 Comments (4)

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Highly entertaining courtroom drama that's well-directed by Reiner but narratively flawed. Thematically, the story is fraudulent--much ado about nothing--but enjoybale to watch.

July 3, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

The intellectual cut-and-thrust of the courtroom is largely absent here, and the denouement seems slick, arbitrary, and derived from the Captain Queeg catalogue.

January 26, 2006 Full Review | Comments (5)

Time Out

So well written and so well acted that you almost don't notice what a shoddy and clumsy piece of filmmaking it is.

November 20, 2005 Comment

Dan Fienberg

Zap2it.com

Entertaining but contrived.

June 12, 2004 Comment

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

A blueprint for Hollywood product done right: intelligent, entertaining, and stuffed to the gills with movie star charisma.

May 2, 2004 Comment

Rob Vaux

Flipside Movie Emporium

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January 1, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

• 1. Col. Nathan R. Jessep: You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
  2. Lieutenant J.G. Daniel Kaffe: Did you order the code red?
  – Submitted by Sone-Serae B (18 days ago)
• 1. Lt. Sam Weinberg: Why do you like them so much?
  2. Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway: Because they stand on a wall, and say 'Nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch.'
  – Submitted by Sone-Serae B (18 days ago)
• 1. Lieutenant J.G. Daniel Kaffe: Should we or should we not follow follow the advice of the galactically stupid!
  – Submitted by Adam K (20 days ago)
• 1. Col. Nathan R. Jessep: You can't handle the truth!
  – Submitted by Venkatesh S (37 days ago)
• 1. Col. Nathan R. Jessep: I run my unit how I run my unit. You want to investigate me, roll the dice and take your chances. I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous.
  – Submitted by Filipe M (2 months ago)