The weirdest part about this movie is that Kiefer Sutherland gives by far the best performance. Delivering pretty much every minute of it from a chair, he manages to convey the tension of restrained/unhinged quite effectively. The other actors are less impressive, particularly Lance Reddick and Monica Raymund. And the ending is incredibly lame.
They do a good job of moving it to the modern day, while still following the book quite well (as far as I recall, anyway-it's been a few decades since I read it). And the decision to focus entirely on the court martial is a good one, turning what could have been an expansive, huge-budget fiasco into a taut <2hr suspense flick. Nicely done.
They do a good job of moving it to the modern day, while still following the book quite well (as far as I recall, anyway-it's been a few decades since I read it). And the decision to focus entirely on the court martial is a good one, turning what could have been an expansive, huge-budget fiasco into a taut <2hr suspense flick. Nicely done.