Matt Damon stars as a lawyer fresh out of law school working for a charlatan and suing a big, evil insurance company for killing his client by failing to pay for his leukemia treatments. Danny Devito co-stars and Mickey Rourke plays Damon's boss. And you get Danny Glover as the kindly veteran judge trying to steer Damon through his first case and Jon Voight as the evil corporate attorney opposing Damon. There's a good story here - the book is your typical excellent John Grisham novel - but the execution is not good. The questioning that Damon does is terrible, not asking important questions, not knowing proper court procedure and just generally is a mess. Stuff that they try to pass off as "rookie mistakes" but really aren't. The music is 1970s cheesy and the whole thing just feels real cheap and cheesy. Definitely not the best Grisham adaptation I've seen, that's for sure. 4/10.
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