"Under Suspicion" is a 110 minute interrogation. Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), a wealthy tax attorney with a Puerto Rican trophy wife, is under investigation for the rape and murder of a little girl. The investigator, Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman), told Henry that he needed a mere ten minutes of his time to go over some of the holes in his story. Ten minutes turned into a few hours as the holes went from small to gargantuan.
All signs were pointing towards Henry, a sixty-plus-year-old man, as being a child predator. But if things were that cut and dried, why have a movie about an interminable interrogation? They needed him to confess because the evidence wasn't quite strong enough.
I thought the movie was alright. I couldn't help but thinking, "There's going to be a twist." That's the only thing that would've made sense, otherwise the movie was too neat and pre-packaged. If Henry was the murderer, and they had him dead to rights, all we're watching is the slow march to the inevitable, and where's the fun in that? I won't say whether there was a twist or not, I'll just say that the ending didn't impress me much at all.
All signs were pointing towards Henry, a sixty-plus-year-old man, as being a child predator. But if things were that cut and dried, why have a movie about an interminable interrogation? They needed him to confess because the evidence wasn't quite strong enough.
I thought the movie was alright. I couldn't help but thinking, "There's going to be a twist." That's the only thing that would've made sense, otherwise the movie was too neat and pre-packaged. If Henry was the murderer, and they had him dead to rights, all we're watching is the slow march to the inevitable, and where's the fun in that? I won't say whether there was a twist or not, I'll just say that the ending didn't impress me much at all.