I've said it before and I'll say it again, Clint Eastwood has to be one of the, if not the, most boring men in Hollywood. He will continue to be this lonely stranger with a secret past, or a drinking problem or whatever.
This film is another edition to those slow thrillers that Eastwood loves to do. Granted, In The Line Of Fire was a decent enough film, but that was because of the quirkiness of John Malkovich and Dylan McDermott.
True Crime is about an alcoholic reporter(eastwood) who is given the routine task of interviewing a prisoner on Death Row. Of course Eastwood gives us the cliched line "i think he is innocent" and from that moment on, True Crime starts to remind us of those other Death Row films where you actually feel something for the prisoner at the end. Most of the major stars have been there-Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne, Susan Surandan and Sean Penn, Chris O Donnell and Gene Hackman, Sean Young and Tim Matheson, Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon(murder in the first-the best one yet) and now Clint Eastwood and Isiah Washington(who, i'll admit is nothing short of brilliant).
The are a number of scenes where the film starts to perk up a little-James Woods and Clint Eastwood talking about their female conquests, Isiah Wahington with his family hours before his execution and flash backs of the crime itself-but on a whole, Eastwood shoots blanks. Rating=2/5
This film is another edition to those slow thrillers that Eastwood loves to do. Granted, In The Line Of Fire was a decent enough film, but that was because of the quirkiness of John Malkovich and Dylan McDermott.
True Crime is about an alcoholic reporter(eastwood) who is given the routine task of interviewing a prisoner on Death Row. Of course Eastwood gives us the cliched line "i think he is innocent" and from that moment on, True Crime starts to remind us of those other Death Row films where you actually feel something for the prisoner at the end. Most of the major stars have been there-Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne, Susan Surandan and Sean Penn, Chris O Donnell and Gene Hackman, Sean Young and Tim Matheson, Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon(murder in the first-the best one yet) and now Clint Eastwood and Isiah Washington(who, i'll admit is nothing short of brilliant).
The are a number of scenes where the film starts to perk up a little-James Woods and Clint Eastwood talking about their female conquests, Isiah Wahington with his family hours before his execution and flash backs of the crime itself-but on a whole, Eastwood shoots blanks. Rating=2/5