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True Crime

True Crime

1999
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 7m
Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come... (imdb)
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True Crime

1999
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 7m
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Rated 31 Mar 2008
60
58th
Pleasantly surprised at how i got so sucked into this story when i would have thought otherwise. Well done. Really dug the scenes with Clint Dennis &/or James. The big build up at the end was a bit much.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
34th
Score based on distant memory.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
78
52nd
Clint Eastwood slips a little but not much
Rated 25 Dec 2007
59
52nd
Kind of a slight Eastwood movie, but still engaging.
Rated 24 Jun 2008
65
53rd
ARE U KIDDING ME HE SAVES THE GUY LIFE AND ALL HE DOES IS WAVE. LOL
Rated 06 Dec 2008
72
20th
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.
Rated 13 Jun 2009
51
49th
Another reasonably 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.
Rated 02 Aug 2009
61
55th
Not bad.
Rated 14 Aug 2009
60
26th
Terribly written, reasonably entertaining movie though
Rated 15 May 2010
75
44th
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.
Rated 22 Sep 2010
65
45th
Average thriller, but Eastwood would be fun to watch talking about paint drying.
Rated 13 Nov 2010
28
3rd
A bad story badly acted and badly directed about a death row execution. Subplots are equally bad. Kill me first.
Rated 23 Feb 2011
45
25th
Passes the time.
Rated 19 Apr 2012
75
55th
75.000
Rated 26 Dec 2012
60
44th
Pace, tension and humour didn't pick up until about 45 minutes in, and Clint once again played a recovering alcoholic sugar-daddy. But that's what he does best.
Rated 05 Oct 2013
76
53rd
75.500
Rated 11 Aug 2014
85
68th
The more inescapably close it gets to the inmate's execution, the more irrevocably defective his only human hope is. There is in fact not one single reductively good or bad person to be found in this constantly compelling story about the instability of perspective, sometimes depending on a few feet's difference in where you're standing.
Rated 03 Feb 2018
60
10th
Viewed February 2, 2018. The only movie daring enough to put Clint Eastwood, James Woods and Denis Leary in a movie together. The homeless man character makes the dog in Sudden Impact look like comedy's finest moment. However, as politically and dramatically confused as this is, it has a couple of qualities that I love in Clint's work, namely the thematic focus on ethics, and the sheer emotional drive of good, honest people working in a broken world.
Rated 02 Sep 2019
80
85th
Weird as hell - black homeless yelling at women, Speed Zoo, clumsy, dark humor bits - but still works as journalistic thriller about an asshole old reporter and his hunches. The rushed ending feels adds layers to its overall welcoming stupidity - Ev discovering that other black man shot the white girl, bringing the mother to talk to the newspaper's owner to stop the death sentence - but its emotional moments (interview, Frank's encounter with family) make this pretty better than average.
Rated 14 Sep 2019
36
30th
not so good
Rated 15 Jul 2021
60
44th
Dead Man's Curve, they really ought to do something about that place (said while shaking off multiple police cars with a .. donut).

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