To me, this movie is perfection.

i must have seen a different film!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Synopsis: A lawyer who is happily married finds out her husband is not who she thought he was when he gets arrested for war crimes. She stops at nothing to clear her husbands name.Review: Here we have a lawyer who ends up out of her depth when she has to defend her husband in military court, the overall plot is decent and the overall movie is well-acted and well-directed, there is an element to this movie that is slightly slow-paced, they take their time telling the story, i think a couple of scenes could have been excluded, but all in all High Crimes is a watchable mystery thriller with a shocking plot-twist.

I started writing this review at the 3 anticlimax but there were...I can't remember how many more. But what will be remembered is the repetitious melodrama and close ups of Freeman swilling booze, and Jude's tears. As always, even when the story line has almost fainted with exhaustion, Freeman's performance manages to carry you to the end of the movie...there was probably other fair performances, but they are lost among the dull wooden recitals of the others. You really need to have absolutely nothing else to do, like me with a broken leg, to watch this dribble...or perhaps to drink as much booze as Freeman does to make sitting through this movie a little more bearable.

Despite good performances from a strong cast, this mess of film fails largely due to downright amateurish direction. Franklin shows no skill with camera and has no idea how to create atmosphere or suspense. Just point the lens at the action, which he provides little of, is not directing. The entire movie is a hodge podge of generic films of this type with nothing original. There is no spark of creativity or any sign that the director tried to do anything other than go through the motions. The novel on which the picture is based is basically butchered, then tossed aside. What is left is an empty shell of a motion picture that goes nowhere while going in all directions at the same time. Someone should have taken this out of Carl Franklin's hands and given to a talented director before too much damage was done.

I only watched this film because 2 of my favourite performers - Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd were starring and I thought High Crimes will be a good film because of these 2 talented performers, but really, to my surprise it was a disappointment. The story is basically about a happily married couple named Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) and Tom Kubik (Jim Caviezel) that suddenly turns turmoil as it is learnt that Claire (Ashley) husband Tom (Jim) has a secret dark past as a classified military operative, that is accused of serious war crimes. His wife Claire (Ashley) does all she can within her power to defend her husband Tom (Jim) with the assistance of Charlie Grimes (Morgan Freeman)I was disappointed because the plot of this film was uninteresting and it was kind of predictable. There are many scenes that keeps you interested and makes you go WOW! and High Crimes does attract your interest regarding the plot for the first half of the movie, but as the movie progresses, it suddenly becomes silly and ruins the first half of the movie I feel. The last part of the movie just ruins the build-up of it I feel. Its not a terrible movie - High Crimes since the acting by Morgan and Ashley was good, gave life to the film, but definitely not a good film. High Crimes at best is average, but to me it was an ordinary movie with some good parts. Its a shame because High Crimes had the potential to be a pretty good film, but it didn't live up to it I felt. I'm surprised it has a 6+ rating overall on IMDb, because really it should be below 6. I give the film a 4 which is fair I feel given the plot and predictability.