An Innocent Man
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Movie Reviews of An Innocent Man
Movie Review: Great Little Prison Flick
Summary: 4 Stars
As anyone who knows me, knows that I love prison films (Escape From Alcatraz, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption) and TV shows (Oz.) This is no exception. Tom Selleck is very good as a man framed by two inept and corrupt cops (including David Rasche, in a 180-degree turn from his Sledge Hammer character.) Laila Robins is wonderful as his wife, who stands by him through thick and thin. Well worth a rental, or even a buy, as the DVD is priced very low.Movie Review: An Entertainingly Uncomfortable Film
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though you know what's going to happen to Tom Selleck's character, and you know that the ending will be happy, watching the process is enjoyably discomfiting. This is a plot film -- stuff keeps happening to the main character, things he appears utterly incapable of controlling, and everything spirals right into disaster. Great Friday night fare. Make a lot of popcorn and savor it.Movie Review: An Innocent Man
Summary: 4 Stars
Am a big fan of Selleck's Jesse Stone series so recently bought this just because of Tom Selleck & very much enjoyed this movieMovie Review: Mildly Diverting
Summary: 3 Stars
I vaguely remembered this from my days in the video industry and the positive user reviews prompted me to see it again. I wasn't all that thrilled. As others have noted, the story revolves around Tom Selleck, who is an all around good dude who gets framed by a couple of crooked narcs to cover up the fact they screwed up and tried to bust the wrong guy. He goes to prison and his life is changed forever.
First off, this looks and sounds like a made for TV kind of flick. The script and dialogue are pedestrian at best. Tom Selleck is likable enough but he isn't the greatest actor in the world and doesn't bring much to the roll. The opening scenes on through the trial are pretty God awful. They just don't hold up by today's sensibilities. Anyone in the audience could have done a better job of defending him in court than did his lawyer. It's just all so lame. Things do pick up a bit when he gets to prison, but again, we all know through any number of movies and TV shows that it's a lot worse in the joint than pictured here. What is cool is to see is David Rasch in one of his earlier performances as well as F. Murray Abraham in his pre-fame part.
When he gets out, and feels forced to bring down the bad cops, things get bad again. It is one of the worst sting operations you'll ever see. And while it's always cool to see good triumph over evil, it needed to be way more cool.
It moves at a rather brisk pace so, even at 113 minutes, time moves steadily enough. It's mildly diverting and if you're a Selleck fan (as is my wife) you could do worse. Just sit back and go with the flow and no harm will come to your brain cells.
Movie Review: In Peter Yates' film, bad cops become dangerous predators...
Summary: 3 Stars
The film opens with sequences conceived to present Selleck as a loving husband and a devoted airlines maintenance supervisor... His name is Jimmie Rainwood...
One night, a couple of crooked narcotics cops break down Rainwood's peaceful door...
Jimmy--who had just taken a shower--comes out with a hair dryer in his hand... He is shot twice by the anti-drugs cops who have caught a shadow of what looks like a gun... So to justify their error, they concocted an entire fairy tale planting drugs in Jimmy's home and a gun in his hand...
Rainwood ends up in jail...
Luckily, he is befriended by Virgil Cane, played by F. Murray Abraham... Cane was the character to keep your eye on... He is a 'schemer and a charmer.'
Virgil disagrees with Jimmy's sensitiveness as a straight man... This is an 'insane place with insane rules' that tests the human consciousness, yet survival will never be the same without some sort of sacrifice... A group of degenerate prisoners make life unbearable for Jimmy until he learns how to really fight back...
The film had its fair share of bloody moments and did not shy away from the nasty things that go on in men's prisons...