a story about success. not the most inspired, far to be the worst . the presence of Michael Douglas and Jesse Metcalfe , the fight for the noble purpose, the last surprise, the love story are reasonable ingredients for a sort of crime who reminds better examples of genre. so, far to be awful.

....but you need more then a great story and premise to make a great movie. it was a decent movie...just because the story and premise was so awesome. the main problem with the movie was that the 2 leads..jesse metcalfe and amber tamlyn are not great actors and peter hyams is not a great director in any sense although he has made better movies then this...not much better tho. it will be a decent watch for big fans of courtroom....thriller...or crime genre movies...it has all 3 genres in it. boo for the fact that michael douglass was only in the movie for like 10 minutes and he looked like he was just going through the routine. i've seen much worse movies then this....the premise and story in this movie made it watchable.

I thought a good movie, with a plot very good, but should have been a little better harnessed. The end also found very fast, should have at least 10 more minutes. In short, it is a good movie, I found the actions of Amber Tamblyn very good. Another actor who appeared somewhat unfortunately, but had a satisfactory performance was Orlando Jones, he should have had a bigger hook in history. Michael Douglas did well when it was used. The main character made ​​by actor Jesse Metcalfe was a little empty, missed more emotion from him, especially in his scenes in prison and when your best friend dies. Anyway, I liked the direction of Peter Hyams, like the way he drives and he always puts on a show in part as a cinematographer. A note 8 the plot and direction, sinned a little, because it could have been better.

The plot has its scheming moments but the viewers get the picture about the role of DA's office too soon. Apart from Michael Douglas, there are no memorable actors, and even the relations between main characters remain rather vague and perfunctory. At times the scenes are unrealistic, not fitting into the logic of the plot, for instance the car chase and events related to a certain DVD. The real ending is sudden and sophisticated, but it could have been elaborated, the person in question could have created some extra tensions.In other words: could be worse, but could be better. I have not seen the previous version of this film - but I do not think I will.