Instant Favorite.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Excellent movie. Tom cruise is too handsome & talented ..Perfect adaption of novel .. imoressive background score & screen play , brilliant direction too..

Invited to join a mysterious legal firm on a high salary, a law school graduate begins to suspect that something is amiss in this riveting Tom Cruise movie. The firm acts like a cult: every member is happily married, they encourage wives to have children, profess conformity to traditional values... and ten percent of lawyers who have worked there have died in horrific accidents. No lawyers have ever left either (at least not alive). This intriguing premise comes from the pen of John Grisham, and as the film veers off into speechmaking near the end with Cruise talking about learning to "discover the law again", Grisham's mark is noticeable. Sydney Pollack has the directing chair though, and much like with 'Three Days of the Condor', Pollack spins a superb paranoia thriller from Grisham's story with limited dialogue and instead focus on establishing a foreboding presence within the firm. There is an unshakable sense of unchecked malice in several scenes. A strong supporting cast helps, though not everyone is in top form. An always wide-eyed Jeanne Tripplehorn has zero chemistry with Cruise and makes an odd choice for his wife. Gary Busey is also little more than himself. Hal Holbrook renders his character fantastically menacing though and Wilford Brimley sends chills down the spine as a security director of sorts for the firm. At two and a half hours, the film sounds a bit on the long side, but it is gripping all the way.

This is an example of Hollywood rewriting at its worst ! They changed this wonderful thriller of a book into a long boring commercial for the supposed high ethical standards of the legal community. A lawyer is willing to risk his life to protect client information?!? Nonsense ! The book is fast paced and interesting and yes the lawyers are just as sleazy as the mafia. This is not to say that all lawyers are sleazy but nor are they all saints. Some reviewers have said that the music was ridiculous and they are right. Unlike the book, the pace is so slow, that you will have the urge to start checking your email. Be sure to MISS this movie.

I give it a three for how many times I felt ANY kind of suspense as I seem to remember the book was a very exciting read...giving this a watch as I couldn't find anything else and since I enjoyed the book..((sound familiar??))...first of all as much as I think Tom Cruise is about as one dimensional an actor for that time it probably was a good choice since he was certainly bankable in the early 90's..however he truly shows no acting charisma in this... shows all the same facial and hand expressions that you will see gone into overdrive by Jerry MacGuire which got him to major ham status... The movie is too plodding and edited with so many inconsequential scenes it just sucks the life out of the suspense...the best actors in the film are actually the supporting cast from Holly Hunter to Ed Harris..even the great and understated Steven Hill gives you more to think about than three quarters of this movie as Cruise and Tripplehorne give us NOTHING to really care about with mopey facial expressions and Cruise's trademark "hold on I am thinking while staring the other direction and pointing my fingers and then standing with a perplexed look to mug for the cam in a manner WE KNOW somethings about to go down"...and then there is the score....where do I begin...the jazzy piano added NOTHING to the supposed suspense the book has created..I firmly expected a dance number to come out of nowhere in the middle of this....totally inappropriate music for this....Gene Hackman is...is......GENE HACKMAN....nuff said......the ending is just ridiculous anti-climatic and makes you think "are you SERIOUS?....to sum this up the best way possible..my favorite scene in the whole movie involved Gary Busey...chew on that for a second or three....LOL