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July 30, 2002
The Client
Low quality Grisham cash-in Two young brothers witness a suicide in a wood. Before he actually kills himself the man reveals where a body has been buried by the mob, and that fearing he'll be next he is killing himself instead. An unlikely start to a film with many unlikely twists and uncertain motives. One of the boys goes into a coma from the shock, and the other is taken on by lawyer Susan Sarandon. Tommy Lee Jones plays a government agent who tries to get Sarandon's client to give up the location of the body. While this is going on the mobsters are also threatening to kill the boy if he says anything. We never really find out why Sarandon takes the case on for free, and risks her life. The mobsters are crude characatures, reminiscent of the villains in a Home Alone film, and in one laughable scene the boy even manages to escape from jail leaving the film with no credibility at all. In the end Sarandon outwits Jones and secures places on the witness protection program for the two boys and their mother, but the legal mumbo jumbo used to reach this conclusion has made any outcome welcome, as long as it means the end of this terrible film. It should have been a TV movie. It was obviously hastily made to cash in on the previous successes of Grishams other novels "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief", which are far superior films. AE0Posted by se71 at July 30, 2002 05:47 PM
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