...and it is an acceptable one as well. Vin Diesel does make a weird and uncharacteristic role, the story is based on a true fact, so they can't really change too much, only dramatize a little.
However, the pretenses of the movie are all wrong. The things said in the commercials, all lies. Yes, it is one of the longest US trials ever, but that's because they decided to prosecute a whole lot of people, each of them having a lawyer (so in reality Jackie played just a role, not the lead), for 76 counts. Any jury forced to sit there and listen to lawyers for more than six hundred days hates the government. Then the comedy is not that great, the film is funny from time to time, but not especially.
Reading between the lines you see that the character of Vin Diesel was more related to the one played by Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco and indeed, the movies seem to flow from the same source. They even seem too long after three quarters of the time has passed :)
But overall it was a good movie. A script that is original because it takes from real life, good acting, the music was a bit too corny for me, but OK. It truly is a courtroom drama, and as hard it should have been to push almost 21 months in two hours of a movie, they did it. Just don't expect too much.
However, the pretenses of the movie are all wrong. The things said in the commercials, all lies. Yes, it is one of the longest US trials ever, but that's because they decided to prosecute a whole lot of people, each of them having a lawyer (so in reality Jackie played just a role, not the lead), for 76 counts. Any jury forced to sit there and listen to lawyers for more than six hundred days hates the government. Then the comedy is not that great, the film is funny from time to time, but not especially.
Reading between the lines you see that the character of Vin Diesel was more related to the one played by Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco and indeed, the movies seem to flow from the same source. They even seem too long after three quarters of the time has passed :)
But overall it was a good movie. A script that is original because it takes from real life, good acting, the music was a bit too corny for me, but OK. It truly is a courtroom drama, and as hard it should have been to push almost 21 months in two hours of a movie, they did it. Just don't expect too much.