A Few Good Men

from my 100 Popular Movies Marathon, part 41 of 100



A Few Good Men, 1992. The Navy wants a murder case to be ignored.

Directed by Rob Reiner. Written by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Tom Cruise, with Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, & Wolfgang Bodison.

Concept: C
Story: "We have no evidence, but maybe if I make a witness angry he will confess." That is pretty much the entire story. I suspect that seeing this as a kid is the reason I thought for years that courtroom dramas were crap. D
Characters: D
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: Nicholson is great. Cruise does well (but he's nowhere near interesting enough carry the film, which he has to do). B
Music: D
Enjoyment: You could cut this down to about 30 minutes - just Nicholson's scenes (and the bare minimum of the rest of it to give them context). That's all that's there. C

GPA: 1.9/4