High Crimes

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Summary: When Mediocre Movies Happen to Good Actors
Review: Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd are two of the best character actors in the business, and their chemistry together can be phenomenal, as the pedestrian "Kiss the Girls" demonstrates. "High Crimes," however, is a movie that is simply not worthy of its stellar cast. The plot is pejorative, riddled with holes, and at times quite boring, and the denouement is incredibly trite and predictable. The story is semi-interesting, but is nothing you haven't seen in a Lifetime movie, and it makes you wonder why the two leads signed onto this project at all, other than the chance to work together again. The movie is supposed to be a mix of drama, suspense, and action, but in its attempt to incorporate all three, it falls short in every respect. Definitely a movie to rent, and not buy.