Reviews of Presumed Innocent 1990

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Patrick Willems
★★★½ Watched by Patrick Willems 3

Finally a movie where Harrison Ford’s jizz is a major plot point

Matt Singer
★★★★ Liked Watched by Matt Singer 4

Low-key awesome movie with low-key awesome Harrison Ford performance.

Jamelle Bouie
★★★★ Watched by Jamelle Bouie 4

You could watch this, Frantic, and The Fugitive as a trilogy of "Harrison Ford navigates a slick conspiracy to clear his name."

Ford is great as always, at once confident and charming but also vulnerable, hesitant and quietly outraged. John Spencer (RIP) is excellent as the dirtbag detective who helps Ford clear his name. The real MVP is Bonnie Bedelia, who exists on the edges of the film but plays a vitally important role in the proceedings. And to that point, director Alan Pakula uses his mastery of space and staging to help reveal, bit by bit, who knows what about the truth of the matter.

Will Menaker
★★★★ Watched by Will Menaker 5

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Colin Burgess
★★½ Watched by Colin Burgess 2

from IMDB trivia: “Harrison Ford's hair was cut in such a way as to make him look ‘wimpier’ than his previous macho leading man characters.”

Kenneth Clark
★★★ Watched by Kenneth Clark 2

Me halfway through the movie: it’d be hilarious if [Redacted] was the killer, that’d be a hilariously bad ending. 

Me when [Redacted] gets revealed as the killer: 

😐

matt lynch
★★★★ Liked Rewatched by matt lynch 1

"I did it."

A catalog of moral compromise, even if it insists on that a bit too explicitly (Raul Julia gravely intoning "Was justice done?" might be pushing it). Also fairly unpleasant that it tries to lump female sexual promiscuity and jealousy in that category (perhaps even positing it as a root cause). nevertheless pretty gripping, especially once you know the outcome, which Pakula constantly teases at just on the edges of the frame with a stray look from someone…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine
★★★★ Liked Watched by Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine 4

Have you ever seen a film and thought it was being directed by a particular person, only to discover that person is involved in that project in another capacity? The same thing happened to me here, as I thought Pollack or Lumet was in charge, but turned out I was partly right as Pollack is a producer in here. It's a small detail, but I found it amusing. And in many ways, you can recognize Pollack's unique sensibility in the…

theo
★★★ Watched by theo

harrison ford really had to cut off all his hair for this role to try and make him look harmless

AbandonChimp
★★★ Watched by AbandonChimp 1

I didn't think it was possible to make Harrison Ford anything less than handsome (even his Hulk is a cutie, kinda), until I saw this gawdawful pseudo-Caesar haircut.

Branson Reese
Watched by Branson Reese

Paul Winfield's speech as the judge is so funny. It's Billy Madison "may God have mercy on your soul" level scorched earth. Wouldn't be surprised if those guys' wives left them on the way home. Doubt they can still vote. He stopped just short of giving them the death penalty for daring to prosecute an innocent man. I think every trial should end like for one side that no matter the crime.

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