Entertainment & Sports
Apr. 18, 2002
Performers' Skill Can't Bail Out Mediocre Film
Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Crimes" is a like a bad television movie of the week, only with a bigger budget and slightly better actors. The movie plays like a standard prime time thriller with predictable plot "twists," hidden elementary scares every 20 minutes and flopping red herrings: dark rooms, people who jump out of doorways, mistaken identities and enough amateurish suspense to fill an episode of "Murder, She Wrote."
Dicta Column
By Stephen Zager
Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Crimes" is a like a bad television movie of the week, only with a bigger budget and slight...
By Stephen Zager
Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Crimes" is a like a bad television movie of the week, only with a bigger budget and slight...
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