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Local lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) defends him, on the grounds that accused rapists don't deserve trials - a justification of lynch-mob A Time to Kill Movie Review Noire Histoir 2. Jackson) murders the redneck scum who savagely rape and torture his 10-year-old daughter. Hard-working family man Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Mississippi, a black man can get away with murder. A TIME TO KILL seems to argue that America's racial problems aren't so bad because, even in the heart of bigoted Subway **** (1985, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade) – Classic Movie Review 6.This cowardly and inflammatory story of vigilante justice in a racist Southern town manages to come down squarely on the wrong side of everything.
So the film end up not being on a par with Schumacher’s other, earlier Grisham adaptation The Client (1994). You can’t argue with that, can you?īut the main problem of A Time to Kill is that Avika Goldsman’s screenplay isn’t quite up to the task in hand. Handling the overblown, predictable and controversial events in the movie was always going to be tricky, and Goldsman can’t quite keep a lid on it. Indeed, it’s most memorable now for its incredibly fine cast, who help keep it entertaining: Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Kurtwood Smith, Chris Cooper, Joe Seneca, Anthony Heald, John Diehl and M Emmet Walsh. Dutton as the sheriff and Patrick McGoohan as the judge. However, Kevin Spacey does shine as the DA Rufus Buckley, and so do Charles S. It’s instructive and symptomatic that Donald Sutherland reportedly wanted his character Lucien Wilbanks to be much more of a drunkard but Schumacher wanted a mostly serious drama, and said playing like it that would be too much comic relief. The actors have paid the price for Schumacher’s serious-minded, sincere intentions. It’s an intelligent, honourable, well-intentioned film, but, mostly, the very good cast is subdued and not seen at its very best. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L Jackson) murders the white scum, two racist rednecks, Pete Willard and Billy Ray Cobb, who raped his 10-year-old girl Tonya, sparking a rebirth of the local Ku Klux Klan.Īs the defence lawyer Jake Tyler Brigance, Matthew McConaughey makes a rather wan hero in the days before he’d added something extra charisma-wise to his acting that would lead him to an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club. Alas, he’s the weak link that lets the film down.
The girl's father kills the rapists in cold blood on their way to a court hearing and cripples a deputy in the process. It begins with the brutal rape of a 10-year-old black girl by two rednecks in a pickup truck. A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015īased on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. A Time to Kill, based on the first novel by John Grisham, is a skillfully constructed morality play that pushes all the right buttons and arrives at all the right conclusions.
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