An engaging film with decent performances whose greatest achievement is that it’s a good fit within the canon of courtroom dramas. Full review by Chris Pandolfi.
GeekActually Writes:
This week David and Josh are again joined by Richard Gray (theReelbits.com) for a review of Robert Redford’s new film “The Conspirator”. They also take a look at some entertainment news, including the new teasers for “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”. Plus an all new Lists of Five: Five Conspiracy Films. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.
Jonathan Kiefer writes:
"Robert Redford’s creaky but inevitably absorbing courtroom-drama-cum-history-le sson gives us a vindictive American government trampling the Constitution in order to avenge a national trauma, then congratulates itself for asking, “Sound familiar?”"
Hollywood has always had a strange relationship with history. Borrowing bits and pieces of truth and filling in the rest of the story like a bad contractor has never been above tinsletown’s best. Even Aaron Sorkin is known to have said that he wouldn’t “let truth get in the way of our story,” when referring to the Oscar nominated The Social Network. Leave it to the King of Sundance to make history a priority in his latest film while perhaps proving Sorkin right in the process.
