Reviewed by Nancy
Snipper
This
well-crafted film weaves a really unusual plot where what is obvious is not the
truth. Directed by Peter Howitt, the film – a Canada-Germany co-production – has
a dark tone that immediately grabs our interest. The plot adds to the intrigue.
Rising
up the legal ladder is attorney Mitch Brockden (Dominic Cooper). After a night
out with the guys, he gets into his car and a battered body hits the front of
his car. Brockden is drunk and thinks he’s the one that has caused the victim
to hover between life and death. He makes a phone call to call the police but
leaves the battered man alone.
The
police find Clinton Davis (Samuel L. Jackson) in a van with blood and the
victim inside. He is accused of killing him. His tools are covered in blood and
Davis himself is suffering from having watched his wife and child get tortured
and killed in a home invasion.
But
Brockden feels he did not kill the man. He thinks he did by hitting him in the
hit- and- run accident. The lawyer’s step-brother, a parolee, comes forward and
claims he was one the one who made the phone call to the police and he claims
to have witnessed the accident. He steers his own step-brother away from the
picture. There is much irony for when Davis
in brought to trial, it is Brockden who must prosecute him, but during the
trial, he seems to be defending him, and as he casts doubt on the alleged
perpetrator, we see how afraid he really is. Will the phone call he made give
his own voice away as the true driver that supposedly killed the man?
The
plot thickens when Brockden digs into Davis’s past and ties evidence to the
true guilt of Davis who tortures parolees who have not protected their
families. Davis
ends up hurting Brockden’s step-brother, but in the end, our lawyer protects
his family, including his wife and baby. Davis
nearly gets away with annihilating the family, but the ending is a happy one.
The movie has some pretty interesting plot twists that demand good acting.
Unfortunately, the stars seemed to doubt their own ability roles on and off the
screen. Still, there isn’t a dull moment in the story.
(This film was viewed, compliments of Le SuperClub Videotron, 5000, rue
Wellington, in Verdun, Quebec.)
(Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments
de Le SuperClub Videotron, 5000, rue Wellington, à Verdun, Québec.)
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