Rotten
Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
High Crimes
Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie...
2002 · 1h 55m · PG-13
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Carl Franklin
Overview
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Director and cast
- Carl Franklin Director
- Ashley Judd as Claire Chapman
- Morgan Freeman as Charlie Grimes
- Jim Caviezel as Tom Kubik / Sgt. Ron Chapman
- Amanda Peet as Jackie
- Adam Scott as 1st Lt. Terence Embry
- Bruce Davison as Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
- Tom Bower as FBI Agent Mullins
- Juan Carlos Hernández Cast
- Michael Gaston Cast
- Jude Ciccolella Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
A well-mounted and well-acted suspense movie that, thanks to its illogical script, falls off a cliff midway through.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Carl Franklin directs smoothly, but except for Freeman, the theatrics are pretty pro forma.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Judd ... eyebrow-cocks her way through Carl Franklin's witless High Crimes.
Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice
Rotten
In a movie like this, if you're not surprised, if you know what's going to happen and you can figure out everything then it ultimately falls flat and that's why it doesn't work for me.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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