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Firm, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some violence
Starring
Tom Cruise,
Jeanne Tripplehorn,
Gene Hackman,
Hal Holbrook,
Terry Kinney,
Wilford Brimley,
Ed Harris,
and
Holly Hunter
John Grisham’s best selling novel comes to the big screen.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Rabe
Robert Towne
David Rayfiel
John Grisham (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Sydney Pollack
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 23, 2000
Video: November 12, 1996
Theatrical: June 30, 1993
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
154 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The result is a top-drawer melodrama, a polished example of commercial movie-making that manages to improve on the original while retaining its best-selling spirit. [30 Jun 1993 Pg. F1]
90
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Rebounding from his biggest career flopflop with "Havana," Sydney Pollack has done an ultra-pro job in giving spit and polish to this star-driven, sure-fire commercial project.
80
Washington Post
Joe Brown
Cruise was born to play company man, and the role is an opportunity to sum up his old roles and transcend them with his most potently emotional work.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
But with a screenplay that developed the story more clearly, this might have been a superior movie, instead of just a good one with some fine performances.
75
TV Guide
Staff(not credited)
This is a professional machine of a movie that compresses huge amounts of information into its two and a half hours of screen time. But it's so weighed down by detail, it fails to generate any real suspense.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
No one is going to confuse The Firm with art, but its high- cholesterol virtues-a story that keeps you guessing, a dozen meaty character turns-are enough to send you home sated.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Yet the film's most serious flaw (next to a newly concocted fizz-out ending) is that it's not sinister enough. [30 Jun 1993 Pg. 01.D]
60
Empire
Matt Mueller
An average movie improved by Cruise's star appeal and accomplished supporting cast.
60
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Pollack makes a solid job of it, as does Cruise. But solid isn't enough when it comes to thrillers -- or courtroom dramas, for that matter. Solid is great when it comes to office furniture.
50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
By the film's climax, following the plot movements has become merely complex rather than suspenseful.
50
The New York Times
Vincent Canby
The movie is extremely long (two hours and 34 minutes) and so slow that by the end you feel as if you've been standing up even if you've been sitting down.
50
The New Yorker
Michael Sragow
The supporting cast provides centripetal force; too bad the center cannot hold.
40
Time
Richard Corliss
Tom Cruise heads a tony cast in a best-seller movie that is firm at the start and infirm by the end.
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
By then, the lofty ambitions can't disguise the sad reality - it's long, it's cluttered, and it's trite.
38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Very little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller.
38
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Director Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in "Three Days of the Condor". But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack's elephantine Havana.
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