Cast:Michael Douglas, Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Jones, Joel Moore, Michael C. Mike Allen, Tony Bentley, Lawrence P. Beron, David Born, Edrick Browne, Megan Brown, Stephanie D. Brown, Crystal Brown-Tatum, Michael Byrnes, Kole Caston
High profile lawyer, Martin Hunter has an impeccable record putting criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie journalist, C.J. Nicholas begins investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to secure his convictions, the district attorney’s perfect record is up for scrutiny. Commencing a risky game of cat and mouse with Hunter, C.J. frames himself as a murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act. Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his assignment, assistant D.A. Ella Crystal becomes caught between her boss’s political ambitions and C.J.’s dangerous expose. As mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella’s own life becomes threatened when she discovers incriminating proof that puts the fate of both C.J’s innocence and Hunter’s reputation in her hands.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt comments / review
Date: 2009-12-21 21:37:35
User: PostFilm
A revisiting of Fritz Lang's 1956 heralded courtroom thriller by Peter Hyams (End Of Days, The Relic, Timecop), Beyond A Reasonable Doubt also gets a fresh coat of cinematic paint when it comes to social context and current cultural concerns. And while Lang's moody noir dabbled subliminally in the deeply embedded paranoia that marked the 20th century's festering Red Scare, Hyams' take on dubious criminal justice practices focuses instead on an often economically self-serving US culture of revenge, in a nation detaining in the millions the largest prison population in the world.
Jesse Metcalfe switches it up from his buffed for booty shirtless gardener in Desperate Housewives, as C.J. Nicholas. He's a cub reporter on the case of Shreveport DA Hunter (Michael Douglas), a ruthlessly ambitious chief prosecutor with a perfect score of convictions, whom Nicholas suspects of rigging evidence and framing defendants as stepping stones to the governor's mansion.
So Nicolas concocts a convoluted premeditated scheme to frame Hunter for real, by setting himself up as a prime suspect in the slaying of a prostitute, and then hopefully exposing Hunter and a detective cohort as having planted evidence against him. Meanwhile, Nicholas is shacking up with Hunter's hottie assistant DA (Amber Tamblyn), a genius move which may just come in handy later on. Or maybe not.
Actually not adding much to legendary filmmaking legend Lang's vintage classic, beyond the prop potentials with criminal intent of photoshopping, Hyams' Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is somewhat conscientiously creepy while teasing with plot twists galore. But the finale is just too rushed and tied up a bit too neatly, to correlate in measured pace and mood with whatever preceded before. Though Metcalfe isn't bad, in handling viewer baiting and seduction as well as he does his tool, in a random horny houswife's garden.
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