Very well executed

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Nice effects though.

Great Film overall

While attending at a fund raising ceremony, Henry is asked to pay a very short visit to the local police station for a couple of questions but the situation escalates quickly, Henry being accused of raping and murdering two small girls. He's forced to stop lying once he figures out that the police mean serious business but whether he is the actual culprit or whether he is hiding something else is left to be discovered and revealed by the detectives. His social life is being jeopardized but also his relation with his gorgeous wife who doesn't know what to think about her husband.It's a psychological thriller, full of confusion, mystery and unexpected disclosures. It manages to draw all your attention, making you eager to discover its unpredictable finale. As a minus, it is a bit too boring in some scenes, slightly reducing its rating but overall it's a great watch.

Well I finally got around to watching Under Suspicion and I must say that the films' cat and mouse chase that was going on throughout the entire film actually did hold my attention.Gene Hackman plays a very wealthy tax attorney named Henry Hearst who is gainfully employed as a partner in his law firm named after him and he is living in Puerto Rico, married to a very young and attractive wife named Chantal played by Monica Bellucci. When two young girls bodies are discovered raped and murdered Henry Hearst becomes Captain Victor Benezet's prime suspect. The Captain is played by the venerable 2005 Oscar winner actor Morgan Freeman and he sets his sights on his prime suspect Henry Hearst with his equally ambitious Detective Felix Owens played by Thomas Jane who would like nothing better than to beat the crap out of this assumed pedophile rich tax lawyer Henry Hearst.Throughout the film which is a 110 minute on screen interrogation Captain Victor Benezet and Detective Felix Owens take turns interrogating the wealthy tax lawyer Henry Hearst divulging all of his deepest darkest secrets and fetishes throughout the film. Meanwhile Mrs. Hearst is behind the two way mirror during some of her husbands interrogation and confession which obviously is meant to embarrass this married wealthy couple in an effort to draw out of them who is responsible for murdering these two teenage girls.Ahhhhh, but just like all of us who crave that beautiful looking dessert or spicy pizza, and we gobble it up, once we have eaten it all, we are left empty and we realize too late that those were wasted calories and maybe we are left with nothing more than just some common heartburn and a reason for feeling we were fooled into eating that dessert, or that pizza that seemed to look so good.Such is the wasted time we have spent on watching Morgan Freeman for 110 minutes interrogate Gene Hackman only to realize that the end does not in this case justify the means. The ending was and is as cheap a dessert, or that pizza we were guilty of consuming, and we always seem to invariably ask ourselves "why did I do that?" If you read my review first maybe I can save you some wasted calories and about 2 hours of your time as the films end is just so disappointing that I asked myself "really now?" "The writers and director could only come up with this crap of an ending?"Well just like a cheap dessert or a spicy pizza that also will eventually turn in to nothing more and nothing less than a good crap so was Under Suspicion. I give it a 4 out of 10 rating and I suggest you stay away from this over rated film.

The atmosphere in this stylish psychological thriller becomes very intense as a cat and mouse game develops between two men who have a shared past. Old resentments, jealousies and secrets soon comes to light as one of the men becomes the other's interrogator and seeks to discover who recently raped and murdered two young girls in Puerto Rico. Inconsistencies in the suspect's testimony then fuel much of the verbal sparring that follows, in what turns out to be, an extremely well-written confrontation that leads to a surprising conclusion.It's carnival time in San Juan and Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman) who's a powerful tax attorney and well-respected member of the local community, is due to propose a toast at a social event that's been organised to raise funds to help victims of the recent Hurricane Lucy. Shortly before he's due to perform this function, local Police Chief, Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman)asks his old friend to call round at the nearby police headquarters for an informal chat.It emerges that Henry had discovered the body of one of the dead girls when he was out jogging one morning and some of the information later gathered by the police had raised doubts about the veracity of what they'd been told by Henry. The conversation between the two men begins very cordially with Henry happy to clarify any points of detail but as some further inconsistencies come to light, it soon becomes apparent that he has become the prime suspect and their exchanges develop into a grilling.This process becomes increasingly tense especially when it's revealed that Henry's marriage to his trophy-wife Chantal (Monica Bellucci) is a sham and that he's always had a strong attraction to young girls. Knowledge that the police have about his visits to a pornographic website and to some young prostitutes in La Perla also support this information and strengthen Benezet's assertion that Henry could be the murderer. The most damaging "evidence" against the accused then suddenly comes from another unexpected source.During his speech at the fund-raising event, Henry says "when nature sends its worst against us, it's as if one of God's cheques has bounced. Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, We find ourselves attacked by unforeseen forces who come to harm us even though we are innocent of any wrongdoing". These words seem particularly pertinent to Henry's predicament as he tries to deal with the personal and reputational damage that he suffers as a consequence of an unforeseen devastating event in his own life.Predictably, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman are tremendous in their roles that give them plenty of scope to display their exceptional skills and to his credit, director Stephen Hopkins mitigates the staginess of the original drama by employing some innovative flashbacks that add extra interest to Henry's accounts of some incidents that are relevant to the investigation. "Under Suspicion" is an absorbing, suspenseful and thought-provoking thriller that's certainly not "run of the mill" material.

A spellbinding gripping intense film. Fantastic performances by Gene Hackman (Henry Hearst) & Morgan Freeman (Captain Benezet), and even a great performance by Thomas Jane as the most annoying (Detective Owens) immature untactful detective. Circumstantial evidence and innuendos are abound, but really this highlights guilt by a person's own dark demons and the social media's manipulation rather than giving any doubt to a person based on actual evidence. The end is not the typical Hollywood (happy ever after) ending or even one that the feminists will be able to hang their hats on, but rather one of that is understanding and emotional as someone who has succumbed to saying what people want to hear without any details being supplied or asked, resulting in their whole life being dissected and humiliated by a forensic scientist and then left discarded on the roadside.