Wether the story is accurate or not The Conspirator is a good movie in it's genre. I'm sure the historical facts must have been about right so for that alone it's interesting to watch, espacially for a European guy like me that didn't know anything about this story. Courthouse movies are normally not really my kind of movies but this one is well done with some excellent acting. James McAvoy did a really good job playing Frederick Aiken, a Northener in the Civil War, and now attorney defending a Southener and that against his will at the beginning. The story is about the trial of the conspirators of the murder of Abraham Lincoln. A military trial almost impossible to win, as almost everybody is biased and eager to find somebody guilty no matter what. It's about injustice and the joke that is the American penal system. A good interesting story with good actors.
Review of The Conspirator
