Rating: 
Summary: A waste of time
Review: A defense lawyer's husband is arrested by the FBI for crimes he supposedly commited while in the military. He's been living under an assumed name. He assures her he didn't really do it, he's being framed. There's a huge coverup. And she defends him.This could have been a good movie, except there were so many pieces of it that didn't tie together. Most of the subplots did not weave neatly into the main story and the main story itself lacked punch. True, we have this wonderfully (or horribly) surprise ending, but that is the only twist the movie takes. And I did not feel that one twist redeemed the viewing experience. The acting is all right, but most of the characters are poorly drawn, and the plot muddled. High Crimes leaves you feeling empty and dissatisfied.
Rating: 
Summary: Mediocre and luke warm.
Review: Like all of this particular author's books, this movie turned out to be the same, mediocre and luke warm like a glass of tap water, hurt your throat but not enough to choke you. I might not want to write a high school like book report to detail what happened in this movie, but I have to admit that not one minute I was committed to this movie during watching. Judd after a long period of diet with vegetables only as her daily food, with two long lines down beside her nose, look dry, drawn, tired and almost no facial flesh to be appreciated as a pretty actress, with Freeman is aging with overweight, this slow motioned movie has turned me off pretty soon.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing and predictable
Review: Disappointing courtroom thriller has an excellent Ashley Judd capitalizing on her success two years earlier in Double Jeopardy. She plays a successful attorney married to a really nice guy (Jim Caviezel) who has no particular occupation except to attempt to impregnate her in the mornings and then work in the toolshed for the rest of the day. She discovers that he actually has a past when the FBI take him into custody and accuse him of a war crime involving the murder of innocent El Salvadoran civilians that he supposedly committed when he was still a marine (and had a different name). Judd, completely perplexed and unsure of who's she even married to at this point, decides to go with her gut instinct anyway and appoints herself her husband's attorney along with the green novice (Adam Scott) they've already given him, and to make sure she fully can comprehend military law enlists the help of a wild-card washed up ex-alcoholic lawyer (Morgan Freeman, Judd's costar from the 1997 thriller Kiss The Girls). Despite the annoying setbacks (the lame subplot involving Amanda Peet as Judd's irresponsible younger sister, not to mention cloying scenes like Caviezel insisting he and his wife get it on in the lie-detector test room because *wink wink* no one's looking), the majority of the film's running plot is actually quite involving: twists and turns and incredible complications kept me riveted to the screen, desperate to find out how Judd would get herself and her family out of this incredible mess. Plus the film benefits from genuine chemistry between the lady heroine and Freeman, their characters written a slight cut above the usual Determined with a capital D freedom fighters you get in these kinds of films. Director Carl Franklin is obviously interested in making something more than just the average Hollywood thriller, something apparent from his more imaginative camera angles and editing techniques, but the film eventually takes an obvious turn in its third act that in itself reveals the film's climactic finale before it even happens, and you're left with an empty feeling like you've seen it all before. Or perhaps you had that feeling earlier when Judd got into the "you're in over your head" phase of the investigation where mysterious cars with tinted windows start driving really close to hers.
Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good I guess!
Review: This movie is kind of wierd, but it's not bad. I don't think I'd watch it again because it was kind of boring to me. I liked the acting. Morgan Freeman gives a great performance, but the story was just somehow off. The ending was dissapointing. Not that I wanted a happier ending, but I think that it could have been something different and much better. But this is just my oppinion.
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Summary: Too many sideplots create gaps...
Review: When a successful defense lawyer's husband is accused of murder by the United States Marine Corps she faces the toughest time in her life. The military court system is different from the civil court system, her husband is assigned a young military lawyer without experience, someone is trying to stop her with the use of violence, and she finds a recovering alcoholic to help her present the defense for her husband. Meanwhile, she is trying get pregnant while her sister has been evicted from her apartment and is dating her husband's young, naive, military lawyer. These plots among others ends up turning the film into a story that has too many holes and makes the whole film experience rather unbearable.
Rating: 
Summary: High time you bought High Crimes
Review: I'm in it and I get a percentage. Help me pay some bills! Plus I think it is a good film. The script is good, the acting great, great locations. I don't think you'll be disappointed at all. Enjoy!
Rating: 
Summary: Wait a minute! Ambidextrous? So, why did I just watch thing?
Review: I just finished watching this movie and an embarrassed to admit it.
This film is horribly written, and the directing is sub par. With script filled with such draining dialogue, a director and actor together should filter the drivel out. This was not accomplished or even tried.
Yuri Zeltser, who churned out this garbage, needs to sit down and watch this movie. Hopefully he will see how painful it is to actual HEAR the words he wrote acted out. What looks great on paper, doesn't always turn out great when executed no matter how great the acting is. And the acting *IS* great!
I feel bad for the great Morgan Freeman, and the gorgeous Ashley Judd for being forced (and they had to have been forced) to spew this script line-from-line. I'm sure it's a hard thing to do, it's noticeable at times. If These two, high price (deservedly so) actors weren't attached to this film, it wouldn't even be worthy of a 3AM HBO run. And who is this Amanda Peet chick? Is she really necessary to this story at all?
She is the definition of wasted money.
But when you're wasting a few million on a poorly written script, what's a dollars more for something to look at.
Rating:
Summary: Plot crimes.
Review: Carl Franklin, back in the Good Old Days of Bill Clinton's Presidency, directed a great film starring Denzel Washington called *Devil in a Blue Dress*. Well, that's starting to seem like a long, long, time ago. His latest, *High Crimes*, is quite simply an absurdity. Starting with the premise: the movie asks us to believe that the corrupt high echelons in the military would attempt to get an innocent Marine framed for a crime which illuminates an embarrassing scandal they'd rather keep hidden. (What's the altnernative? Framing a GUILTY, homicidal Marine? Either way, the embarrassing scandal they'd rather keep hidden will come out.) To enrich the implausibility, the moviemakers then ask us to swallow the idea that this poor Marine gets defended in military court by his own WIFE (Ashley Judd, implausibly glamorous per usual). Sorry, but I do ask for a moderate quotient of realism when it comes to my thrillers. "Escapism" is not to be confused with "fantasy". Adding insult to injury, Morgan Freeman wastes another fine performance on a project that is totally beneath him.
Rating:
Summary: A Total Let Down
Review: This wasn't a horrible movie, but it wasn't a good movie by far. The movie was on the right track until it got to the ending. I think that the creator wanted to try a different kind of ending for this type of movie. The story-line of this movie is unoriginal but the acting is superb. Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman do a very good job. However, if the creator wanted to give the movie an interesting ending, he should have gone about it differently than he did. He should have made the prosecutors guilty in a complicated way or something. The ending was sad and it ruined the movie.
Rating:
Summary: An unexpected end
Review: The story is really good, completly unexpected. She's a hot lawyer, and he's is the hottest marine on earth accused of a crime, is he guilty??? you have to see the movie. Morgan Freeman plays an alcoholic lawyer that helps Judd Ashley, who is a lawyer defending her husband accused of a crime (the hot marine), she is harrased by other marines, they almost try to kill her, because they want her to drop the case, however she believes in her husband, no matter what.
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