A summary from Netflix: "Successful Georgia attorney Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branaugh) becomes obsessed with sultry client Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz) in this atmospheric thriller penned by John Grisham and directed by Robert Altman. When Magruder attempts to protect Doss from her religious fanatic father (Robert Duvall), the barrister soon finds his career - and his children - under threat. Tom Berenger, Robert Downey Jr and Daryl Hannah costar."
RDJR plays private detective Clyde. He manages to look only semi-sober throughout the entire film. I'm guessing a portion of that time he was actually in character. Frankly, I would have taken a hit on anything offered to me if it would have made this bucket of dog spit go by faster. I'm feeling your pain, RD.
I firmly believe that you know if a movie is going to be any good or not in the first few minutes. Iron Man opens with Tony Stark riding through the Afghanistan mountainside in a Humvee, crystal tumbler of booze in hand, while AC/DC blasts in an old-school boom box. That's how you open a film, baby.
On the other hand, when your "sultry" lead female takes off all her clothes, sobs "My daddy ain't gonna git no better!" and has sex with Kenneth Branaugh...well...you get the idea.
An hour and 54 minutes that I'll never get back. This movie is definitely a 1.
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