When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she is forced by someone known as "The Teacher" to persuade the other jurors to vote "not guilty".
He threatens to kill her son if she doesn't commit. When the trial is over, he can't let her go...
There are two big problems with this movie, they should have trimmed the ending by at least ten minutes, and Baldwin should not have got his motivation from the T-1000.
There are times when he is so autonomous, you can almost hear the mechanics grinding in the background, which is a shame, because in the first act, he is really convincing, but when we find out he's the Teacher, it's as if he's expecting the audience to want him go that little more Psychotic.
Moore is as good as she always is, convincing as the parent who is worried for her son's well being. But when Baldwin and Moore are on screen together, it just doesn't convince. You do think every now and again that they will get together at the end, but thats only because the fear factor that Baldwin had in the first act vanishes.
Gandolfini is great in this movie though, and shows what a talent he is. Just a shame he isn't in the movie a lot more.
There is some good camera-work and good performances, even from your token mobsters, who look like extras from Goodfellas.
It's not a bad film, entirely watchable, just not plausible enough.
He threatens to kill her son if she doesn't commit. When the trial is over, he can't let her go...
There are two big problems with this movie, they should have trimmed the ending by at least ten minutes, and Baldwin should not have got his motivation from the T-1000.
There are times when he is so autonomous, you can almost hear the mechanics grinding in the background, which is a shame, because in the first act, he is really convincing, but when we find out he's the Teacher, it's as if he's expecting the audience to want him go that little more Psychotic.
Moore is as good as she always is, convincing as the parent who is worried for her son's well being. But when Baldwin and Moore are on screen together, it just doesn't convince. You do think every now and again that they will get together at the end, but thats only because the fear factor that Baldwin had in the first act vanishes.
Gandolfini is great in this movie though, and shows what a talent he is. Just a shame he isn't in the movie a lot more.
There is some good camera-work and good performances, even from your token mobsters, who look like extras from Goodfellas.
It's not a bad film, entirely watchable, just not plausible enough.