Primal Fear (1996)
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
My Rate: 3/5
Aron Stampler (Edward Norton) is a young boy accused for the butcher of a famous archibishop in Chicago. Martin Veil (Richard Gere) a well known lawyer takes his advocate role in the court for free, because he thinks he is innocent.
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This is a complete court movie with all the necessary elements. Dirty money, sex scandals, hidden evidence, powerful lawyers, and of course a dual personality psychopathic defendant.
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I think this is the first important movie that Edward Norton has appeared in, and he has done it great. So that a couple of years later he takes a similar role of a dual personality man in David Fincher's masterwork, Fight Club. The same situation for Richard Gere, he plays the same role some more years later in one of the great musicals of history, Chicago.
Overall, it's a good film with great acts, but quite predictable for me because I had seen a British film many years ago with quite the same situation and the same ending. I can't remind the name, that's a shame it was a very good film that was shut totally indoors.
2 comments:
You forgot to add the "spoiler" tab :)
thanks for reminding, it's fixed now.
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