The Chamber
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Movie Reviews of The Chamber
Movie Review: A Very Good Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
The acting in this movie is very good as is all movies with Gene Hackman. It keeps you glued to your seat and it is a must see.Movie Review: Not the best Grisham movie
Summary: 3 Stars
If I were to categorize all of the Grisham movies so far, it would go like this: 1. The Firm 2. The Pelican Brief 3. The Client 4. Runaway Jury (Hackman is better in this one) 5. A Time to Kill 6. The Rainmaker 7. A Painted House 8. The Chamber.
My favorites: The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, Runaway Jury, A Painted House.
Movie Review: not the best
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is about a young lawer trying to get his gramd father out of prison. The grandfather is on death row. In the end ol' grandfather gets gassed. Groos this movie was mot to great but the acting and bachgrounds were great. The plot was the worst ever.Movie Review: The Chamber
Summary: 2 Stars
Chris O'Donnell stars as Adam Hall, a 26 years old attorney whose father committed suicide when Adam was 10 years old because Adam's grandfather (Gene Hackman stars as Sam Cayhall) killed Joe Lincoln and Adam's father felt himself guilty since he hadn't stopped his father and handed his father a shotgun.At the burial of Adam Hall's father, Adam knew his grandfather was still alive but involved in a terrorist attack that two Jewish children died and Adam's grandfather had been sentenced to die by 28 days, in the Mississippi gas chamber and to no surprise, Sam is Adam's first client. However, Adam was told that's a case with nil winning chance. Even so, Adam was determined to save his grandfather from death penalty but time's running short.
During the investigation, Sam revealed his KKK member's identity to Adam and the fact that the jury is certained Sam is guilty. And thanks to the two dead children are Jewish, Sam was named as racist. Also, Sam told Adam that no matter what Adam would do, Adam couldn't save Sam from execution.
Adam has tried his best, found Rollie Wedge to be guilty and Adam tried to claim Sam is insane, but these didn't affect the death penaltiy to be executed and Sam died in calm without final words.
Even it's a tedious film, I've learnt something from it - to some extent, law is not always a reliable tool of justice because evidence may give us an unfair, bad opinion of the suspects and also there's no absolute evil.
Movie Review: A Legal Thriller That Doesn't Focus On The Issues.
Summary: 2 Stars
"The Chamber" is a poorly written thriller thatpretends to be serious. The plot is so small, that it's bloated to thepoint where it uses the subject of racism as nothing but the elements of entertainment. This film doesn't show racism for what it is, sure it shows the KKK as criminal, secret and venomous, but those have always been it's selling points. "The Chamber" would work better if it tossed away racism because it doesn't make it into an issue here, only into a form of entertainment like the entertainment we get off of Rambo or a Schwarzennegger flick. How disappointing that instead of raising real thought-provoking issues, "The Chamber" is just boring and uninteresting. And to think that idiot John Grisham actually wants to take Oliver Stone to court over a great movie that does raise issues and serves as a satire of society: "Natural Born Killers."