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Movie Review: A Time To Kill - Paper

Movie Review: A Time To Kill

I never read A Time To Kill by John Grisham because the book bored me. But I
wonder why it did bore me because the movie was engrossing and entertaining.
Maybe it is because Akiva Goldsman took out most of the boring parts. I usually
love Grisham, but this book was just too slow. However, another thing that made
the movie more entertaining is the actors.

The movie begins with the rape scene that you have probably heard about. If you
haven't, it's a quick-edited scene so it doesn't show much, but still makes your
stomach churn. Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) describes it graphically in
his summation. Anyway, what makes the scene so shocking is that it is a 10 year
old girl being ...

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to another town. Unfortunately, the judge (Patrick McGoohan) decides
against moving the trial. Brigance needs to get a jury of young, married men
with children. What does he get? A jury of women and old men. So Brigance has
his work cut out for him, especially when he is up against the cruel and
cheating Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey).

The film moves along quickly, which I wasn't expecting. The movie is 145 minutes
long, but it seems shorter than this. The book is over 500 pages, so Goldsman
had his work cut out for him. But he did a great job and made the movie more
entertaining than the book. As I said, the actors must have had something to do
with it as well. Matthew McConaughey is superb as Brigance. This is his first
movie and it will probably make him famous. His summation is one of the best
parts of the movie. He says it with great emotion that, not only can the jury
relate with, but so can the audience.

Samuel L. Jackson is always good and there is one particular ...

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Added: 12/18/2007 06:18:23 AM
Category: Arts
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