I really wished "...And Justice for All" was a great movie about one lawyer's conflicts within a broken justice system. I wonder if the movie might have been better if Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky collaborated on this uneven darkly comical project instead of director Norman Jewison and screenwriters Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtain.
What ruined it for me were the various subplots and supporting characters which got in the way of the main plot in which an attorney (Al Pacino) finds that was hired to defend a corrupt judge (John Forsyth) he does not respect.
Even though the final scenes were outrageously over-the-top, the final 20 minutes were the best scenes in the movie. Pacino loud, bombastic appearance fit perfectly and I only wished that the ending was as good as the rest of the movie. I think "...And Justice for All" was unable to do what "Network" did three years earlier due to some ill-advised creative choices that made the film more silly than biting.
I will always remember the ending. The rest of the movie is a bit of a blur.
What ruined it for me were the various subplots and supporting characters which got in the way of the main plot in which an attorney (Al Pacino) finds that was hired to defend a corrupt judge (John Forsyth) he does not respect.
Even though the final scenes were outrageously over-the-top, the final 20 minutes were the best scenes in the movie. Pacino loud, bombastic appearance fit perfectly and I only wished that the ending was as good as the rest of the movie. I think "...And Justice for All" was unable to do what "Network" did three years earlier due to some ill-advised creative choices that made the film more silly than biting.
I will always remember the ending. The rest of the movie is a bit of a blur.