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NUMBERS
Box Office: $41,442,009
VHS Rentals: $18,830,000
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CONSENSUS
Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.
CAST & CREW
Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel
Directed by Carl Franklin
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SYNOPSIS
You live the life you had always pictured: a thriving career, a beautiful house, and most importantly, a wonderful husband. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, violence, sexual content and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 50 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 5, 2002
Video: Aug 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
20th Century Fox
GENRE
Dramas, Thriller, Courtroom, Military (Usa)
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official High Crimes Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "Our enjoyment of High Crimes depends entirely on how much we identify with these characters -- our immersion in their lives is precisely what carries us over the large and unsightly wrinkles in the script."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "Director Carl Franklin, so crisp and economical in One False Move, bogs down in genre cliches here."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Strong setup and ambitious goals fade as the film descends into unsophisticated scare tactics and B-film thuggery."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"A decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit Franklin needs to stay afloat in Hollywood."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"There are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"If High Crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"The film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime, one that brings military courtroom dramas down very, very low."
-- Jim Chastain, NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
"If A Few Good Men told us that we “can’t handle the truth” than High Crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we “don’t care about the truth.”"
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"'Crimes' is so
standard in its proceedings that it should have been called 'Generic Courtroom Thriller.'"
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream, it also represents glossy Hollywood at its laziest."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"High Crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them, and maybe that is nobility of a sort."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating, riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"High Crimes miscasts nearly every leading character."
-- Blake French, FILMCRITIC.COM
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"Sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists, idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even Freeman can't save it."
-- Rick Bentley, FRESNO BEE
"Claire is a terrific role for someone like Judd, who really ought to be playing villains."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Watching the chemistry between Freeman and Judd, however, almost makes this movie worth seeing. Almost."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"Consider the film a celluloid litmus test for the intellectual and emotional pedigree of your date and a giant step backward for a director I admire."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Everything else about High Crimes is, like the military system of justice it portrays, tiresomely regimented."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"May cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Presents nothing special and, until the final act, nothing overtly disagreeable."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"[Morgan], Judd and Franklin can't save the script, rooted in a novel by Joseph Finder, from some opportunism."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"It's a Frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be."
-- Marc Fortier, REEL.COM
"With lesser talents, High Crimes would be entertaining, but forgettable. With Freeman and Judd, I'll at least remember their characters."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 33%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"Ludicrous, but director Carl Franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Stale and clichéd to a fault."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller Smart Women, Foolish Choices for advice."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"High Crimes works to keep us involved and make us care."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"More good than great but Freeman and Judd make it work."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"High Crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ Marine/legal mystery, and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff, nearly subliminally, as the old-hat province of male intrigue."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"For all its surface frenzy, High Crimes should be charged with loitering -- so much on view, so little to offer."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"High Crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"High Crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor, a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors, Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"Conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' ... where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences."
-- Yazmin Ghonaim, CINEPHILES
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