A Few Good Men: Critic Reviews

The screenplay is a good one, directed with care and acted, for the most part, with terrific conviction.

Men is full of loaded, manly moments, great clashes of will and excellent buzz cuts.

It's a grand undertaking that wrangles with the heavy questions that cropped up at Nuremberg and My Lai, questions that deserve and get lots of imposing shots of monuments and not a little swashbuckling from the big stars.

The movie's setup scenes have good energy to them.

The same histrionic fireworks that gripped theater audiences will prove even more compelling to filmgoers due to the star power and dramatic screw-tightening.

An extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story.

That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner (Misery), who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that literally vibrates with energy.

The final scene, when Kaffee locks horns with Jessep, more than makes up for the predictability of what's come before.

Although Nicholson has little more than an extended cameo, he seizes the final courtroom scene and makes it a tour de force of cinema.

Julgando-se mais importante e inteligente do que e na verdade, o filme conta com um roteiro ingenuo em seu idealismo juvenil e traz Cruise em uma performance implausivel e repleta de maneirismos de estrela.

Highly entertaining courtroom drama that's well-directed by Reiner but narratively flawed. Thematically, the story is fraudulent--much ado about nothing--but enjoybale to watch.

The intellectual cut-and-thrust of the courtroom is largely absent here, and the denouement seems slick, arbitrary, and derived from the Captain Queeg catalogue.

So well written and so well acted that you almost don't notice what a shoddy and clumsy piece of filmmaking it is.

Entertaining but contrived.

A blueprint for Hollywood product done right: intelligent, entertaining, and stuffed to the gills with movie star charisma.

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