This Produced and Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood vehicle comes across as yet another Eastwood ego trip, he's even shoving his love of jazz down the viewer's throat again...and I think what we have here is a clear example of what happens when there isn't anybody there to say 'NO!
Clint Eastwood has been in the movie business for so long, he knows every cliche and overused plot in cinematic history. I think when he decided to make this film, in spite of the fact that the "innocent prisoner on execution day" story has been done many times before, he said, "I'll put the Eastwood touch on it, and it will work.
Good suspense mystery but to be honest, it has just about every cliché in the book. The innocent condemned man, the hard-nosed battle scarred journalist with the marriage on the rocks thanks to an affair with a colleague's wife and the condemned man saved from the fatal injection at the last possible moment (perhaps even beyond it).
Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, James Woods, Dennis Leary , Francesca EastwoodSteve Everett (Eastwood) is a hard-boiled journalist who recently moved to the West Coast after being fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, editor-in-chief Alan Mann (James Wood ), he gets a new job at the Oakland Tribune.
It's hard to truly like a movie in which the main character is a philanderer. It was almost comical.
"True Crime," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is a taut thriller that goes to the wire as Steve Everett (Eastwood), a journalist and recovering alcoholic, tries to find out what really happened that fateful day when Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington) entered a convenience store to buy a bottle of steak sauce and wound up being convicted of murdering the store clerk. It's not a campaign born entirely of compassion, however Everett has had a checkered career that has taken him to the top of his profession, only to have his own errors of judgment (attributed to the bottle) precipitate a swift decline that has ensconced him in a job at a large paper in the Bay area of Northern California writing personality pieces and sidebar profiles.
It's a great movie one of my favorites that she's starred in but the biggest annoyances the title.
There is a good movie in here someplace trying to get out. The main problem is a lack of focus.
The high school age of the story's protagonist trivializes the entire film. Mary (Alicia Silverstone) has an interest in "true crime".
