Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

kmckaig-432-513211 Outstanding cast and top notch acting. The script follows the book closely. How can you go wrong with this. One of my all time favorites.

DVR_Brale Matt Damon went hard on this one! If you want to learn how to act like a gentleman, look up to Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) manners. He's smart, hard working and most of all friendly and helping guy. He treats everybody with respect.Danny DeVito plays Baylor's sidekick. Even though Deck (DeVito) is practically an expert on insurance companies, Baylor is the man. Deck gathers information and advises but Baylor does all the really noble job. Interesting inversion which serves to point out that virtues are generally more important than knowledge alone.This movie will inspire you to become a better at your profession by inspiring you to become a better man.

powermandan Most good courtroom dramas and legal movies deal with murder. Those are just simply the most fun ones to see. The ones that do not deal with murder have to be extra great for everybody to like it. This is one that is simply that good without the need of murder. This is based on the 1995 novel by John Grisham of the same name. I'll have to admit, I did not like the novel. It was too boring with too many subplots and just dragged on about nothing. What Grisham bored me with, Coppola condenses in a way that I wish Grisham wrote in the first place. This features a star-studded cast (Matt Damon, Claire Daines, Danny DeVito, Jon Voigt, Danny Glover, Teresa Wright, Mickey Rourke, Roy Scheider) that is bound to make this movie that much more enjoyable. The movie is about recent law-school grad, Rudy Baylor (Damon) who is assigned to a case involving a poor family suing a wealthy insurance company for not paying for their son's cancer treatments. The company hires a high-power law firm with years of experience with very little losses. Rudy has never even been involved in a case before. At first, the lawyers make him look bad. Then Rudy slowly turns the tables on them as he shows what the company has really been up to. That is what makes the courtroom portion so interesting. A youth fresh of of school successfully files a lawsuit in such an exciting and believable way. But it is not realistic how he is assigned a high-profile case right off the bat. In reality, Rudy would have to work for years near the bottom of a firm and slowly get to the position he is at in the film. This is not as good as most of Coppola's other movies and not 1997's best. The acting and everything might be good, but a big chunk of the movie is so gloomy and dull. But it is better than the book. Luckily, it is one of those that gets better as the minutes go. Bit by bit, the case gets more complex and Rudy tries to save the life of a woman (Daines) who's in a stormy relationship with her husband, all which make the movie a very fine watch.

A_Different_Drummer Rated this a 7 of 10 because, in the great scheme of the movie universe, that is what it is. Especially notable -- and this where the magic comes from -- are the scenes where Damon finds his inner Jimmy Stewart and faces off against Jon Voight who, late in his career, morphed into one of the best movie "bad guys" of all time. These scenes, trust me, are to be savored because the rest of the movie is simply an exercise in what could have been. No less than the uncrowned King of film, Francis Ford Coppola, wrote (adapted) and directed. How common is that? This reviewer has seen the Godfather series AT LEAST 10 times and I would see it again tomorrow. Can't say that for Rainmaker. It just seems to diminish talent rather than enhance it. De Vitto's character never rises above caricature. Ditto for Claire Danes. Ditto for everyone else. The final 5 minutes is especially maudlin and it staggers the imagination that one of the greatest directors of all time left it in the cut...?