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Rating of
3/4
I’ve forgotten how fantastic this film is!
MovieAddict - wrote on 03/24/2012
1993 and a deadly virus called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (aka AIDS) was emerging as the most fearful disease on the planet. It had surfaced in the mid 80's but the early 90's saw its establishment as a terrifying and ultimately fatal disease. In this movie, Tom Hanks portrays Andrew Beckett, a successful lawyer at a major law firm on his way to being partner. When he contracts AIDS he hides his illness and continues work. When an important document goes missing and an important client only narrowly avoids ruin, the partners fire Beckett. He however, suspects that his bosses find out that their "golden boy was gay and had AIDS." Beckett then seeks representation from injures lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), who is homophobic and at first rejects him but then he decides …
Rating of
2/4
Wants to tug the heart strings quite hard.
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 11/30/2009
A film that tries everything to hit the heart strings and is manipulative in every single way possible, with flash backs, scenes of overly evil characters, and over sentimentality over and over again. It could be even more over the head with things but it is still pretty hard over the head in what it is telling. I thought all the characters could have used more development except maybe Denzel Washington's and the court scenes go on auto pilot very quickly. There also are many shots that focus on faces that are more annoying looking than genius a lot of things could have been better done such as Hanks' character needed more scenes actually and needed more to him. A film can try to be like this but It actually needs to be more natural and it should not try as hard.
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