Competent (nothing amazing here) directing and acting save this half-hazard screenplay where nothing much of interest happens. But Eastwood's gruff is familiar in a good sort of way, and it's enjoying enough to watch him curmudgeon about smoking a cig.

Another enjoyable Dirty Harry alike. Eastwood might be a journalist here, but he certainly doesn't loose any of that attitude. Overall it's pretty enjoyable, with a familiar but typically well executed death row orientated plotline. Ends a little too abruptly though.

Not bad.

Terribly written, reasonably entertaining movie though

Average thriller, but Eastwood would be fun to watch talking about paint drying.

A bad story badly acted and badly directed about a death row execution. Subplots are equally bad. Kill me first.

Passes the time.

Clint Eastwood slips a little but not much

Eastwood is one of my big heroes in cinema, both as a producer/director and as an actor. But honestly, he's way too old to pull off this particular role convincingly. Denis Leary needs to be in more movies - he's a talker, and so is James Woods. The dynamics between Woods, Leary and Eastwood make for some of the best parts of the movie and the story as such, well...has been done better in other movies such as Dead Man Walking or The Life of David Gale. A lesser Eastwood, this one.