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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:60
Rotten:42
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Diesel's performance may win you over, but the rest of the movie is tediously overlong and stacks the deck to gain sympathy for criminals.
Theatrical Release:Mar 17, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $608,804
Synopsis: Accomplished director Sidney Lumet has based some of his most notable films on true crime stories, and FIND ME GUILTY is similar in this respect to such work as SERPICO and DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Peter Dinklage
Director: Sidney Lumet
It's hard to do anything in court that hasn't been done before. It's a static situation, and points are scored in tiny increments. No big witness-stand breakdowns, no tearful confessions. Thus, boredom creeps in.
The real-life proceeding was supposedly the longest Mafia trial in American history, and you can feel all 600-plus days of it in Sidney Lumet's turgid screen translation.
With the help of a bad wig and a great script, Vin Diesel emerges from the action-film mire, giving an astoundingly nuanced performance.
[Lumet's] crowning masterpiece.
Top CriticSporting what looks like one of Bert Convy's escaped hairpieces, Diesel delivers a sly performance: charming, yet honest about his character's essential lunkheadedness.
...a fully entertaining venture, Diesel's best film to date and Lumet's best in at least a decade.
Find Me Guilty is overlong and often sitcomy, but it's also pleasantly old-school, with a tone, soundtrack, and even a title-card font that suggest a mellow but not senile Woody Allen.
Top CriticThe joy of this star turn isn’t in the cosmetic adjustments Diesel has made to play Jackie. It’s in the boundless energy and humor he brings to the courtroom shenanigans
The action star can't keep pace with the rest of the film, and fails to provide the ribbons of charm that helped DiNorscio win the hearts of the jurors and the respect of the lawyers.
As Jackie, [Diesel's] the real surprise in what otherwise is a less than electrifying courtroom drama.
Top CriticTo the charge of squandering credibility despite being based on a true case: guilty.
Top CriticIn Find Me Guilty, the teller counts at least as much as the tale. And, in director Sidney Lumet, Find Me Guilty, has a master storyteller spinning the yarn.
If you're one of those people who thinks interesting trials make for interesting movies, then you will find this movie 'entertaining' as charged.
It fails on almost every level possible to fail on
Entertaining because it's a good, old-fashioned yarn.
If you didn't know you were watching Vin Diesel in Find Me Guilty, you wouldn't know you were watching Vin Diesel. And that's a compliment.
Sitting through the belabored courtroom drama Find Me Guilty feels like a particularly prolonged session of jury duty.
If watching a jury disregard mountains of damning evidence in favor of a charismatic gangster who calls himself a "gagster" seems a morally challenging proposition, well that's all part of the bargain in Lumet's topical drama.
As the case grinds on and we follow Jackie from his cramped cell to the airless courtroom we begin to feel as confined as the prisoner himself.
Guilty simulates the experience of sitting on the jury for a lengthy court case -- moments of excitement sprinkled throughout an endless monotony of posturing.
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