The Chamber: Critic Reviews

There isn't a whole lot to the movie.

Lacking the surface glitz, attention-grabbing plot and star power of John Grisham's previous adaptations, Folley's film will also suffer due to comparisons with the similarly-themed and better Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, released last year.

The story, about a young lawyer handling the last appeals of his grandfather, who is on death row, has enough little surprises and mysteries to stay interesting, and the stars milk it for all they’ve got.

Emotionally affecting drama that shows that healing is possible across the generations.

Ham-fisted preachifying pablum.