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High Crimes (2002)

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31

Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 91

Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.

35

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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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 38,385

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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.

Aug 27, 2002

$41.4M

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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.

August 9, 2002
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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A well-mounted and well-acted suspense movie that, thanks to its illogical script, falls off a cliff midway through.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
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Carl Franklin directs smoothly, but except for Freeman, the theatrics are pretty pro forma.

April 14, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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Judd ... eyebrow-cocks her way through Carl Franklin's witless High Crimes.

April 9, 2002 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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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.

April 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Stale and clichéd to a fault.

April 7, 2002 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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Mediocre thriller of the betrayed-woman genre.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

There's a modest load of extras on the standard DVD and blu-ray versions, including a half-dozen featurettes.

September 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

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.

December 5, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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This is the work of a director who seems to have been as bored and uninspired making this movie as I was watching it.

January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

High Crimes has its fair share of decent courtroom scenes but the legal tussles are far better than the emotional ones.

March 5, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

...Starts out as a taut and intriguing story but seems to get more preposterous as it goes...

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online
Film Quips Online

Military whodunit isn't great drama, but director Carl Franklin's skill makes for an above-average thriller.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix
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Audience Reviews for High Crimes

At its core, High Crimes has an interesting story to tell. Unfortunately it tells it badly and is full of unnecessary characters, plot twists, action, etc. A good thriller should be thrilling and High Crimes is pretty far from Thrilling. Carl Franklin experiments with different styles of editing (at least in the first 20 minutes or so) that serve no purpose at all, he adds pointless and irritating characters like Jackie (played by the pointless and irritating Amanda Peet), spends next to no time on character development (Give the bad guy a scar over his face, just so people know he's the bad guy) and in the end, you couldn't give a hoot if Jim Caviezel's character is guilty or not. Also, if you're going to advertise a film as a 'Courtroom drama' you might want to have more than 10 minutes worth of courtroom footage. Morgan Freeman is the only reason I kept watching, not because he's particularly good in it but because he's likable. I would say this film is instantly forgettable but I think it may be too bad for it not to be remembered.
March 29, 2012
SirPant

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really good interesting and surprising twist
September 10, 2007
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