Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

This crime/drama is a great story of the importance, or lack thereof, of truth. The acting is excellent for some characters but average for most. The story is interesting, funny, and smart, but has a few weak points. Overall, it's a fun and fresh contrast to many of Eastwood's more intense films. It's definitely worth seeing. Really good!

Devoid of any of the charm that made the book stand out, Midnight's pace is unfocused and lethargic, challenging even the most attentive viewers. Eastwood's direction might be pedestrian and uninspired, but isn't solely to blame: the screenplay opts to focus on the insanely boring and passive main character, saddling him with a hollow love interest (which apparently no Hollywood movie can do without) while mostly ignoring the secondary characters that really were the soul of the story.

Not really my kind of movie.

Nice acting, but not necessarily a riveting story. The "love story" underneath is not even really worth mentioning, and frankly....odd. But still, worth it to see Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, and the infamous Lady Chablis.

Doesn't do the book justice.