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Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecutor (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) to justice after 30 years of failed attempts. Charged with the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Beckwith slimes up the film pretty well via Woods's somewhat showy performance, while Baldwin generously assumes the usual clichés surrounding reluctant heroes. Whoopi Goldberg is at her most stately as Evers's widow. The whole self-important production is dogged by the obvious thought that it might have played better (and to far more people than it did in theaters) on television. --Tom Keogh
From The New Yorker
Rob Reiner's well-intentioned film about the efforts of a Southern attorney (Alec Baldwin) to bring the killer of the civil-rights leader Medgar Evers to justice. Reiner's work here is less platitudinous than in his last movie, "The American President," and the histrionics of "A Few Good Men" have been kept to a minimum, but the film is bland and punchless. Baldwin does his usual top-notch work, and James Woods is good (in bad makeup) as the killer, Byron De La Beckwith (his snakelike delivery hits all the right notes), but Whoopi Goldberg, as Evers's widow, seems too contemporary. The film is seriously underwritten; the audience never gets a sense of what Evers was like, and, since it took decades to convict De La Beckwith, there's little tension in the story. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecutor (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) to justice after 30 years of failed attempts. Charged with the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Beckwith slimes up the film pretty well via Woods's somewhat showy performance, while Baldwin generously assumes the usual clichés surrounding reluctant heroes. Whoopi Goldberg is at her most stately as Evers's widow. The whole self-important production is dogged by the obvious thought that it might have played better (and to far more people than it did in theaters) on television. --Tom Keogh
From The New Yorker
Rob Reiner's well-intentioned film about the efforts of a Southern attorney (Alec Baldwin) to bring the killer of the civil-rights leader Medgar Evers to justice. Reiner's work here is less platitudinous than in his last movie, "The American President," and the histrionics of "A Few Good Men" have been kept to a minimum, but the film is bland and punchless. Baldwin does his usual top-notch work, and James Woods is good (in bad makeup) as the killer, Byron De La Beckwith (his snakelike delivery hits all the right notes), but Whoopi Goldberg, as Evers's widow, seems too contemporary. The film is seriously underwritten; the audience never gets a sense of what Evers was like, and, since it took decades to convict De La Beckwith, there's little tension in the story. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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