High Crimes (2002)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 91
Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 22
Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.
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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.
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Cast
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Ashley Judd
Claire Kubik -
Morgan Freeman
Charles Grimes -
Amanda Peet
Jackie Heller -
Adam Scott
Embry -
Jim Caviezel
Ron Chapman alias Tom K... -
Tom Bower
Mullins -
Bruce Davison
Brig. General Marks -
Juan Carlos Hernández
Major Hernandez -
Michael Gaston
Major Waldron -
Jude Ciccolella
Colonel Farrell -
Emilio Rivera
Salvadoran Man -
Michael Shannon
Abbott -
John Billingsley
Oshman -
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All Critics (144) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (93) | DVD (23)
Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire.
Top CriticA well-mounted and well-acted suspense movie that, thanks to its illogical script, falls off a cliff midway through.
Carl Franklin directs smoothly, but except for Freeman, the theatrics are pretty pro forma.
Judd ... eyebrow-cocks her way through Carl Franklin's witless High Crimes.
In a movie like this, if you're not surprised, if you know what's going to happen and you can figure out everything then it ultimately falls flat and that's why it doesn't work for me.
Stale and clichéd to a fault.
Mediocre thriller of the betrayed-woman genre.
There's a modest load of extras on the standard DVD and blu-ray versions, including a half-dozen featurettes.
Hampered by a bad script, this is a middling political thriler that's not supsenseful or dramatic enough to generate any interest in the proceedings; the good Morgan Freeman is totally wasted.
This is the work of a director who seems to have been as bored and uninspired making this movie as I was watching it.
High Crimes has its fair share of decent courtroom scenes but the legal tussles are far better than the emotional ones.
...Starts out as a taut and intriguing story but seems to get more preposterous as it goes...
Military whodunit isn't great drama, but director Carl Franklin's skill makes for an above-average thriller.
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