A masterpiece.....
Added 9/23/2009
True Crime is one of the Eastwood greats, one of the best. Exceptional acting on the parts of both Clint Eastwood and Isaiah Washington. This movie should really be on your collection list for Eastwood and Washington movies.
The story line of this film is typical of the clever way that Eastwood keeps one on the edge of your seat, until the very last minute.
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It Happened in Oaktown
Added 4/8/2009
We turned on True Crime as part of a project to watch all the films of screenwriter Larry Gross, and this one turned out to be a gem. Primarily a showcase for Clint Eastwood, the film has a hypnotic power that sees us through some rocky shoals. Mostly, the director has a problem with his star actor--he's too old to play the part, and at first it's disconcerting to see him canoodling in a quiet Oakland bar with a fellow reporter Mary McCormick. The film says she's 23 (though I must say she looks older), but he must be 70 and we start doing all kinds of subtraction in our head. At heart the movie is a study of a man falling apart, losing everything the good old fashioned Richard Yates way, and the conceit of the movie is that it all takes place within that Aristotelian framework of 24 hours (plus a little epilogue that must take place several months after the main course of the plot, for it's Christmastime, and Clint is Santa).
Oakland never looked so good or so bad, and I doubt that Eastwood ever assembled a better cast of actors all the way around. Isaiah Washington and Lisa Gay Hamilton are both magical in parts that fall outside their usual acting range--here they're Christians struggling through his final hours on Death Row, with Michael McKean as an officious chaplain. In the outside world Clint is cheating, smoking up a storm, cuckolding his boss, fooling women who see through him. Chief among them is Diane Venora as his long -suffering wife. Once again Venora proves that she has the dark acting chops that should have landed her starring parts in every Cassavetes movie ever made: she actually looks as if her suffering is not going to be wiped off when the camera's aren't rolling. I think she must still be crying somewhere, helplessly, over Clint's roving eye. That Venora hasn't the Oscar nods of, say, Meryl Streep, is the real "true crime" here
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True Crime
Added 10/31/2008
I have never been a Clint Eastwood fan, neither disliking him or liking him, however, this movie was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I thought it was well written, well acted and I really liked the ending. It might've been "predictable" to some but I wasn't sure how it would turn out. I thought it had a great storyline and wasn't at all predictable. (You figure it will be a 50/50 chance of how it ends and if THAT makes it predictable, then I suppose it was). It's a good, interesting movie with a good ending. Plain and simple.
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True Crime
Added 9/19/2007
Fantastic. I just love all of Clint Eastwood's movies. This is a definite keeper. Would recommend purchasing it to anyone.
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Ahhh.... just what the world needs: another mindless, pointlessly violent movie filled with gushing blood and bloodthirsty gangsters that do all sorts of things that are against the law, such as stealing and killing to name a couple. To top off it all off, you get to watch Clint Eastwood as his character tries to rescue an innocent man from the death penalty via electrocution. If you like Clint Eastwood, then might I suggest "Million Dollar Baby"? It's no masterpiece, but it's far more interesting and entertaining than this junk.
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