[Carl Franklin] has no idea how to enliven junk, so he simply lets High Crimes chug slowly along.
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04/04/02
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High Crimes (2002)
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Reviews Counted:131
Fresh:41
Rotten:90
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.
Theatrical Release:Apr 5, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $41,442,009
Synopsis: You live the life you had always pictured: a thriving career, a beautiful house, and most importantly, a wonderful husband. Someone you love and know better than anyone else. But suppose... [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott
Director: Carl Franklin
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Reviews for High Crimes
The talented Carl Franklin is a realist, with a great feel for character details and plot nuances, but High Crimes needs realism like it needs a hole in Judd's perfectly coiffed head.
04/04/02
A decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit Franklin needs to stay afloat in Hollywood.
04/04/02
Apart from Blade II, High Crimes is probably the most entertaining commercial movie so far this year. And yet it's junk.
04/04/02
High Crimes fits comfortably into the conventions of the genre, but Franklin seems happy to be working with them, not against them.
04/04/02
Much of what happens in High Crimes is utterly stupid, and almost all of it is derivative. But Judd and Freeman bring a zip to their characters that goes far beyond what's on the scripted page.
04/04/02
The problem -- a small one, apparently, in the view of the screenwriters, Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley, who adapted Joseph Finder's novel -- is that the twist renders everything that came before completely nonsensical.
04/04/02
Top CriticThe problem with High Crimes, acceptable though it is, is that it's not close to anyone's best work.
04/04/02
Top CriticThe military courtroom drama High Crimes has a charismatic cast, a slick look and, judging from his track record, a gifted director -- everything but a subtle, well-crafted script.
04/04/02
Top CriticWhile High Crimes is riveting at times, it relies mostly on adrenaline, not intelligence, to keep us glued to our seats.
04/04/02
Both Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman's performances are riveting.
04/04/02
Though glossy and formulaic, High Crimes ... proves highly entertaining.
04/04/02
Top CriticIt's a Frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be.
04/04/02
If A Few Good Men told us that we “can’t handle the truth” than High Crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we “don’t care about the truth.”
04/04/02
This flick does the job, and can't really be described as either great or shoddy.
04/04/02
No better than the cheap-thrill, lady-in-distress hooey that's the mainstay of telemovies...at best a cinematic misdemeanor.
04/04/02
Strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and B-film thuggery.
04/04/02
High Crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ Marine/legal mystery, and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff, nearly subliminally, as the old-hat province of male intrigue.
04/04/02
Top CriticThere are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending.
04/02/02
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